" Kurt Loder popping on the CRT screen either imply we were run to hear the dumbest / funniest affair happening in music that day or about to be inform about a death that scars an intact genesis , and he ’d do both tasks with the same authority , the man is merely our Cronkite . "
As you might have already heard, yesterday Paramount Networks — the parent company of MTV — announced that they were shutting downMTV Newsas a part of larger company-wide layoffs.
MTV News, which first launched on the network in 1987, is a huge iconic piece of MTV history for both Gen X’ers and millennials. And for anyone who grew up watching MTV in the ’90s, they probably remember it being anchored by the ever-dry-witted Kurt Loder — who sometimes seemed to have a disdain for the things he was reporting on (but that was part of his charm).
By the ’00s, MTV News became a mainstay onTRL, with correspondents coming on the show daily to talk about important topics and events. It also transitioned online with a more expanded presence on MTV’s website.
Even though we live in an era where Twitter accounts like Pop Crave exist, giving us instant news, there is still something sad and very truly “the end of an era” about the shutting down of MTV News. With that in mind, I rounded up some tweets from Gen X’ers and millennials reacting to MTV News shutting down and the cultural impact it leaves behind:
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If you lived in the era of Kurt Loder and Tabitha Soren @ MTV News , you have lived . So many immense moments in pop acculturation : Kurt Cobain , Biggie , and 2Pac passings , Courtney Love doss Madonna ’s audience , etc.https://t.co/viCyU6lSIgpic.twitter.com/rmdnRDYVfK
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Kurt Loder popping on the screen either meant we were run to hear the dumbest / funniest thing hap in medicine that day or about to be informed about a death that scars an intact generation , and he ’d do both chore with the same authority , the humankind is simply our Cronkitehttps://t.co/MpxaKlYR9a
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Kurt Loder informs a stunned nation Kurt Cobain is drained . This was my generation ’s goddamn Cronkite and Kennedy.pic.twitter.com/hYO4vVRgeG
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Young people today will never appreciate what MTV News mean in its coverage of three Brobdingnagian Gen X cultural touchstones:-The death of Kurt Cobain - The dying of Tupac - The death of Notorious BIGKurt Loder legit grief counsel us through all of that shit .
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i finger like part of my puerility died . i have a go at it that sound dramatic , but i know you get it . o
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MTV News keep out down is the final nail in the coffin for the MTV I once know and loved .
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Vice News & MTV News were my pinnacle from high schooling to undergrad . I cognize the type of journalism I want to do was possible because of them . escort them shutter feels like that lane easy close perpetually .
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MTV News was an iconic and essential outlet for an entire generation . It was an incredible experience and a dream come honest working there for many years , with fantastic people who in truth changed my life sentence . Extremely sadden by the intelligence it ’s shutting down .
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Kurt Loder and MTV News had us in a chokehold back in the 24-hour interval , esp when a musician decease . It ’s officially the oddment of an era ( but it ’s been over for a while , tbh).But these Paramount cuts are brutal . The medium is in a tough outer space right now.https://t.co/y76EoosLiF
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MTV News got an total contemporaries of Gen Xers and older millennials to jump paying attention to planetary events , politics , the world . Kurt Loder & the MTV News gang expound a part of my brain that living in small - town rural America never could.https://t.co/ZehpNmx6jD
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MTV News is close down . Damn , MTV is getting disembarrass of all the best thing that multitude loved about this internet.pic.twitter.com/PZhPhKyOaR
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attend I appreciate that my generation is coming together to be sad about MTV News shutting down , but I ’m not check enough Tabitha Soren love on my provender … pic.twitter.com / ih1LCLSv3A
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In honor of the end of MTV News . The good second of virginal chaospic.twitter.com/h8dzp4LIQh
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In honour of MTV News ( RIP ) , do y’ all think of when Kurt Loder go along shading Jewel over her abuse of the word “ casualty ” in her al-Qur’an of poetry?pic.twitter.com / duGjmxkcb4
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Breaking news . MTV News is exclude down . Now back to ‘ Ridiculousness.’pic.twitter.com/mYKK2r0n4 m
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Thanks to everyone for all the genial words today …
