Despite hosting the reputedly “worst show in TV history,” Jerry Springer’s candor offered an admirable model for other politicians to remember — and follow, writes Clarence Page.
Talk show host Jerry Springer, a delegate from Ohio, applauds speakers during the Democratic National Convention in July 2004 at the FleetCenter in Boston.
I felt saddened by the news, yet also grateful to have lived long enough to appreciate what he had taught American TV viewers about themselves. He made many of us news consumers wonder whether we, as the title of a classic book by media theorist Neil Postman declared in the 1980s, were “Amusing Ourselves to Death.”
Known for raucous arguments that occasionally broke into hair-pulling, chair-throwing and bleep-filled arguments, the daytime talk show was a favorite American guilty pleasure — or forbidden fruit — from 1991 to 2018. And always at the end would come a summary commentary and his redemptive sign-off, used more recently by another former Chicagoan, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt: “Take care of yourself, and each other.”Talk show host Jerry Springer is hugged by an audience member during a taping of"The Jerry Springer Show" in November 2005 in Chicago.
When I had an enviable opportunity to chat with Springer at a 2018 meeting of the National Conference of Newspaper Columnists in Cincinnati, I was pleased to learn firsthand that the bad boy of the airwaves turned out to be considerably more sane, well-informed and thoughtful than his oddball media image would lead us to believe.
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