ll be noted, but in general he has sought a different audience. His listeners may also feel disaffected with traditional media, but they are attracted to Stern because he is iconoclastic and dangerous. Much of his show centers on testing the limits of free expression on the airwaves, and this has brought him into conflict with the FCC, unlike most of the right-wing hosts who have come into their own over the same period of time as Stern has been building his audience.
Both Stern and Limbaugh have been accused of having a negative effect on their audiences, though for different reasons. Each has also professed not to be responsible for their influence on the audience (Laufer 63). Stern tends to be more scatological in his broadcasts and Limbaugh political, but Stern has his political element as well and even announced his candidacy for Governor of New York in 1994 under the heading of the Libertarian Party. Bill Winter, Communications Director for the Libertarian party, seemed to accept this candidacy with some trepidation even as the par
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