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Article: #$%@!(Jerry Springer Show is most offensive program on television)
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- New York
- Article date:
- April 20, 1998
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The Jerry Springer Show is the most voyeuristic, violent, obscenity-laden program on TV. But if you disapprove, that's not Jerry's problem. "Hey," he says. "That's America."
Get Jerry Springer started on the subject of what is tragic and exploitative on TV, and he does no soul searching. Instead, you'll get an aggressive lecture on elitism, racism, and the nightly news. Particularly the horrors of such really degrading programming as 60 Minutes and CNN's Crossfire. "I'm guilty because I did it for ten years," says Springer, referring to his days in the newsroom in Cincinnati. "God is gonna be a lot more tolerant of what I'm doing now than of when I was a news ...