Radio Stern Research Paper

Katherine,

My husband was in radio for many years and I witnessed how people like to follow radio personalities first-hand. We would be in the grocery store and someone would recognize him and get all giddy. I found this interesting. He wasn't even working for a large radio, but a small-town station. His biggest followers were prisoners. They would write fan mail. With this in mind, I believe that it is easy for the media to sway large numbers of people to believe what they want them to believe. After all, radio stations survive on persuasion of commercials. If commercials didn't work they wouldn't advertise. Howard Stern is a great example on how people become followers of the media. He had such a