By Rich Kozlovich
It's been announced that Howard Stern's 50o million dollar contract with SiriusXM will not be renewed. What happened? He got woke and his once massive daily audience of 20 million dwindled down to 125,000.
By Rich Kozlovich
It's been announced that Howard Stern's 50o million dollar contract with SiriusXM will not be renewed. What happened? He got woke and his once massive daily audience of 20 million dwindled down to 125,000.
Truth be told, I didn’t know he was still befouling the airways, let alone being paid such an obscene amount of money to boot. He's been touted as a champion of free speech, but to rational people Stern was to free speech what Lenny Bruce was to comedy; a crude embarrassment, in his case a national embarrassment.
His acceptance by 20 million people is a national embarrassment, and the willingness of a commercial enterprise to tolerate his rude, crude, intellectual and emotional impairment for profit further enhances and compounds that national embarrassment. While it's true he changed the culture, that change in no way could be considered anything but negative. And that's his legacy!