Why Do We HATE Certain Talk Show Hosts?

Do you ever wonder why you hate certain commentators? Why do they get under your skin? Do you ever consider that you LET them bother you?

It's a fact that anybody on TV or radio has a certain level of "entertainment value" and is there to make money. Plain and simple, it's all about bucks and getting a response from an audience is not always easy to do. However, to us, it seems that what these people do (to us) is nothing difficult. They're just being themselves.

Take for example, Howard Stern. There are millions of people who have an opinion about Howard Stern. Howard's a terrific broadcast entertainer who has made his living ($465 Million from his present employer) by being who he is...allegedly. Howard's irascible, obnoxious, and sexist, and offends people by the millions. Yet he stays on top in the media world even on that still relatively small medium called satellite radio. Why? How come he continues to raise the rath of people (most of whom have never heard his radio show) all over the world? How come so many have even an opinion about someone who has never directly affected them?

It's because he's an entertainer. An entertainer dances, comments, insults in a manner which captures the curiosity of his audience. Most people have never seen Howard except on David Letterman yet they say, "Oh he's an obnoxious creep!-I hate Howard Stern."

Howard entertains by being irritating. He knows what he's doing. He know exactly how to manipulate his medium and to make people have a particular impression of him. If people didn't hate him he wouldn't have an audience at all. Frankly, he's brilliant at what he does and is a textbook example of how to handle yourself if you want to generate millions of dollars in the media. The more naked women he has on his radio show and the more times he comes on and takes a swipe at political candidates or people who "America holds dear"---the more ratings he is getting for his show and the more money he is generating for himself. He's not kidding when he says he's the "King of All Media". He is just "Howard" on radio, TV, movies, and books.