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When Jerry Springer left a career in politics and obtained his first job on television as a news presenter, he offered a slogan he would use for the decades to come. “Take care of yourself and others,” he said as the credits were rolling, a warm feeling that would sound somewhat hollow in his next job as host of The Jerry Springer Show.
For almost 30 years, Springer – Died in 2023 – presided over a daytime television series in which friends, lovers and family members broadcast their dirty linen in front of the swimming audience and who often descended fiscs (the series took to keep the bouncers on a platform). The Jerry Springer Show was a television phenomenon, at its peak which exceeds the queen of the Oprah Winfrey day in the notes. However, his criticisms have seen his stories increasingly explosive of adultery, incest, white supremacy and sexual deviance – you may remember the man who married a pony – like a new entertainment.
The podcast Final reflections: Jerry Springer Documents The rise of the show and its controversial host. It is written and presented by Leon Neyfakh, the brain behind the successful podcasts Slow burn,, Fiasco And Think about. If you heard, you know the meticle with which Neyfakh manages his subject. This attention to details is obvious here because he consults a range of people who knew, worked with or were guests of Springer, bringing together their testimony in a reflected and convincing story which, although familiar, always has the capacity to surprise.
Naturally, Springer had his detractors and his defenders. In the old camp is a homeless woman who made the show with the promise of $ 200 and a chance to tell her story; In the event that she was demonized and, she says, left with half of the promised costs. And in this last camp is producer Melinda Chait Mele, who says: “Many people wanted to come The Jerry Springer Show And many people wanted to look at him. So what should I be ashamed?
Neyfakh's series is unfortunately timed, coming months after a Netflix documentary on the same subject. But where the television series only gives superficial attention to ethics and long -term impact of Jerry Springer's show, Final reflections Drizzle deeper, contemplating, among other things, the repercussions of children returning from school to watch families throw chairs on television. It is also a cerepical character study because it reveals the competing aspects of the career and the personality of Springer: the master of the Multimillionaire Ring of a Tawdry television circus which was also a liberal complexion in wool (and a mayor of Cincinnati) who used to return to the public service. Perhaps David Leland, former representative of the Ohio State, says it better when he says: “We make our choices and we live with our choices. He certainly did.”
