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Article: Living in a Jerry Springer world.(about Jerry Springer Show)
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- School Administrator
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- August 1, 2005
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OK, I admit it. I have watched Jerry Springer on occasion. It is a guilty pleasure. I don't know if his popularity is because we know people like the ones he has on his show, because we don't know people like the ones he has or because we are just glad we aren't on the show ourselves.
The Springer show has come to represent the extremes in our society--perversion, unlikely pairings, lying, cheating and what have you. Come to think of it, kind of reminds me of Washington, D.C. And that's the point.
As I look at what has evolved in our society over the past few years I sometimes think we are all living in a Jerry Springer world. On one hand we have seen a ...