Daily Inspiration Quote by Kurt Loder

The jab lands because it’s framed as a mild observation and reads like an indictment. Loder isn’t scolding young viewers so much as exposing a lazy piece of industry math: if younger people aren’t watching your news, you get to stop trying to reach them, then cite their absence as proof you were right. The line “they figure” does a lot of work. It suggests a closed-loop consensus inside newsrooms and boardrooms - a shrug disguised as strategy.

The subtext is generational, but it’s also about power. Television news has long defined “seriousness” through its own rituals: appointment viewing, authoritative anchors, a tone that implies citizenship looks like sitting still. Younger audiences, trained by MTV-era velocity and later by the internet’s on-demand logic, don’t reject news so much as reject being lectured on someone else’s schedule. Loder’s career makes him an unusually credible witness here: he watched the culture shift from the inside, in a space (music media) that treated youth attention not as a nuisance but as the whole point.

Context matters: the quote comes from the long unraveling of broadcast dominance, when TV started losing the under-35s and chose, often, to harden its programming for older loyalists. That’s a business decision with civic consequences. Dismissing young people isn’t neutral; it’s how institutions quietly decide whose reality counts as the mainstream.