Howard Stern has had four shows on Sirius Satellite Radio so far, and many of the mainstream media reviews have been positive. But, as he's been for the past 25 years, the King of All Media is still polarizing.

Brian Maloney is not impressed with what he's heard from the show so far:

Here's Howard's sad reality, even if he's laughing all the way to the bank: there really is a limit to how filthy and disgusting one can make the show's content. At this point, what can he do that's still shocking?

The end result is tiring and stale.

If all Howard Stern was was filthy and disgusting, he would have been thrown out of radio 20 years ago and he'd be selling men's suits today. Now, he's one of the richest entertainers in America and, as he's pointed out this week, he has more listeners paying $12.95 per month for his content than all of the people who listen to Don Imus for free.

Yes, he's been cursing and talking up some very graphic, adult-oriented material. (If you haven't heard him this week, you can read the blow-by-blow at MarksFriggin.com, the world's greatest Sternblogger.) But there have also been the same, hilarious, on-air squabbles between show personalities as he's had for years; there have been the same, patented instances of Stern Self-Doubt at least a couple of times per show; and there's been ample discussion of news and current events, Stern-style, as his terrestrial radio fans had come to know.

Not only that, Mark Ramsey reports:

Sirius satellite radio is now standard equipment on Rolls Royce.

That means you can have your Howard Stern and your Grey Poupon at the same time.

So, is it a "revolution?" Eh. Not really. It's a new industry, with new rules that's letting Howard Stern perform like he did 15 years ago: conversations that don't slow down while he pauses to think whether he can say what he wants to say; no "dump" button cutting out words every two minutes; and a lighter, funnier atmosphere for listeners. He's still a Bush basher, which will turn off conservatives and war hawks. But he's not an unfunny Bush basher.

So, four days into this and the Earth is still spinning.