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Article: Senators attack closed captioning subsidies for springer show
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- March 4, 1998
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03-04-1998
WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Education Department is defending its subsidies for closed captioning of ``The Jerry Springer Show.''
Sens. Dan Coats, R-Ind., and Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., asked Education Secretary Richard Riley in a letter Tuesday to revoke the grant for Springer's show, which on occasion has featured female impersonators and adults who have sex with teen-agers as guests.
The show ``may titillate and humiliate, but short of the window it provides on the depths to which our culture has sunk, we challenge ...