What is Kurt Loder doing?

I'm talking about the video clip on the top left, not the column that takes up the majority of the page, in which the aging founder of MTV News uses The Fountain as an excuse to fondly drift back to "the Roger Corman days," although that looks like a symptom of the same syndrome. But that's nothing compared to the horror of watching Loder (who apparently turned 61 this year) sit in the middle of a table full of 27-year-olds, nodding his head like he cares about Hostel.

It's not just that Loder himself has been pushed to the margins by several new generations of MTV Anchors; and it's certainly not news that the very concept of holding a mirror up to the culture, which MTV used to embody, has been literally pushed off the network by dating shows and frat parties, and dating shows about frat parties. What actually troubles me is that Kurt Loder, after 25 years with the network, has been relegated to silently condoning torture porn on a 2-inch-wide box on the internet, and he's still -- apparently -- not interested in looking for work elsewhere. What is he waiting for? Does his pension kick in when he hits 65?