"The King Of All Media"

Since June 19, 1984 one man has been in the nation's spotlight as one of the most influential shock jock radio personalities. Howard Stern has been shocking millions of people over the air waves for many years with his very controversial humor he uses sexually and racially. But he must be doing something right to be elected Time Magazine's "Time 100: The People who shape our world." Not only has Howard Stern dominated as a radio personality, but in many other forms of media such as television, publishing, feature films, and music. All of which have made him into the man that people consider to be one of the most influential celebrities in the world.

But with all these medias that Stern has ran so successfully, for the most part, what makes his radio show any good? Is it his crude comedy? His bashing of political persons?

I think that his show is both great and terrible. It is great in that he can make me laugh at some of the dumbest subjects imaginable. He can put any person in their place when they try to argue with him. He simply knows how to tell his listeners what it is that they want to hear... his blatant side of everything, whether it hurts them or not. And most of the time I think that he is spot on with his point of view. But then there are times that I have seen on his show where he is humiliating women, midgets and mentally handicapped people for pure amusement and entertainment, and I am definitely not ok with that. I personally have a brother who has become mentally handicapped about 3 years ago and if anyone, including Howard Stern, ever said even a small percentage of the things he says about people in my brother's position I would gladly knock their teeth in. Another thing he does is he has game shows while on the air with contestants who humiliate themselves for prizes that are, in my opinion, flawed gifts. What I mean by flawed gifts is, for example, a girl could win breast implants or an underage kid could win a prom date who is a porn star. These are just immoral things to be given as prizes in my point of view. But it keeps the listeners laughing and listening so he keeps on doing it. Making fun of Americans has made him millions and if people are dumb enough to keep going back for more, I say let them. Let the rich get richer off of your humiliation if that keeps you laughing.