Article: Shame on you, Jerry, for `The Jerry Springer Show'

FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer
AP Online
03-26-1998
NEW YORK (AP) _ Well, isn't this nice.

The Rev. Billy Graham absolves President Clinton of impolitic horniness. Saddam Hussein is sitting pretty with his bombs and germs. Basketball star Latrell Sprewell gets away with just a slap on one of the hands he used to choke his coach.

And Jerry Springer rules daytime talk TV.

You know the story. ``The Jerry Springer Show'' has almost doubled its ratings in the past year, and recently has tied with and even beat ``The Oprah Winfrey Show.''

Why this seventh-season surge for ``Springer''? Simple. More brawls, boobs and bad words.

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