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Rolling Stone Rips The New Howard Stern Show on Sirius
Rolling Stone weighs in with their review of the new Howard Stern show on Sirius. The headline and tagline of their article says it all: "Howard's End - Stern's show puts the "um" in "tedium." In their mind, now that Howard has no enemies - no censors, no FCC, no Clear Channel - he also lost his edge.
In a scathing article, Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield pulls no punches. Some quotes:
"He sounds like he no longer has to deal with anybody who doesn't kiss his ass, and as a result he sounds like a bored, gloomy fifty-two-year-old man."
"Howard spends most of the mornings talking about how famous he is, how loyal his listeners are, how many millions of people are running out to buy Sirius radios, while his studio monkey-boys crowd around the mike to say, "Right on, Howard. You still the king." Fans call in to remind him he's still got it."
"If you thought his sidekicks were useless suck-ups before, get a load of them now. Robin compares him to Martin Luther King Jr. Artie says the main reason he wishes his father were still alive is so he could hear him on The Howard Stern Show. "We're making history," he gushes. And this was the first seven days. By next month, Howard will only be able to keep himself awake ordering the staff to do tag-team ass-to-ass action."
Hmmm, David Lee Roth is getting lambasted in the New York Post, Stern in Rolling Stone...sounds like radio does have something interesting to talk about in the morning.
RollingStone.com article
posted by Unknown @ Saturday, January 28, 2006,
1 Comments:
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At 8:03 PM,
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What Rolling Stone failed to mentioned is that Howard Stern refused to be interviewed by the magazine this past winter when they would not put him on the cover.
