RIP Jerry Springer
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/arts/television/jerry-springer-dead.html
Jerry Springer, who went from a somewhat outlandish political career to an almost indescribably outlandish broadcasting career with “The Jerry Springer Show,” which by the mid-1990s was setting a new standard for tawdriness on American television, turning the talk-show format into an arena for shocking confessions, adultery-fueled screaming matches and not infrequent fistfights, died on Thursday in suburban Chicago. He was 79.
His death, after a brief illness, was confirmed in a statement by Jene Galvin, a family friend and executive producer of Mr. Springer’s podcast.
Mr. Springer earned a law degree from Northwestern University in 1968 and started on a political career, winning election to the Cincinnati City Council in 1971. But he was soon embroiled in the type of personal scandal that would later fuel his talk show: He resigned in 1974 after he was found to have written a check for prostitution services at a Kentucky massage parlor.
But Mr. Springer was nothing if not resilient: He was re-elected to the council in 1975. One of his comeback speeches nodded to the prostitution controversy. “A lot of you don’t know anything about me,” he said, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer, “but I’ll tell you one thing you do know: My credit is good.”He was elected mayor of Cincinnati in 1977, and in 1982 he ran for governor of Ohio, addressing the prostitution incident forthrightly in a campaign advertisement.
“The next governor is going to have to take some heavy risks and face some hard truths,” he said. “I’m prepared to do that. This commercial should be proof. I’m not afraid, even of the truth, and even if it hurts.”
He finished third in the Democratic primary and made a career change, joining WLWT-TV in Cincinnati, first as a news commentator; he later became an anchor and managing editor. Over the next decade he won or shared multiple Emmy Awards for local coverage.
“The Jerry Springer Show,” a daytime talk show syndicated by Multimedia Entertainment, which owned WLWT, began in 1991. Originally it was an issue-oriented program; The Los Angeles Times called it “an oppressively self-important talk hour starring a Cincinnati news anchorman and former mayor.”
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I once had to fire a phlebotomist over Jerry Springer.
She would have fit well on his show...
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I once had to fire a phlebotomist over Jerry Springer.
She would have fit well on his show...
@Jolly said in RIP Jerry Springer:
I once had to fire a phlebotomist over Jerry Springer.
She would have fit well on his show...OK, you can't just leave that comment out there.
What happened?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Jolly said in RIP Jerry Springer:
I once had to fire a phlebotomist over Jerry Springer.
She would have fit well on his show...OK, you can't just leave that comment out there.
What happened?
@George-K said in RIP Jerry Springer:
@Jolly said in RIP Jerry Springer:
I once had to fire a phlebotomist over Jerry Springer.
She would have fit well on his show...OK, you can't just leave that comment out there.
What happened?
We had a policy that the waiting room tv would be tuned to the local OTA channel. Boring NBC stuff, but local news, etc.
I had an blonde phlebo-idiot that was already on thin ice for nail and piercing violations. She luvved her some Springer. bad about swapping channels, after being told not to.
A black mountain, working incognito as a uniformed hospital security, walked through the waiting room, saw the tv was on the wrong channel and changed it. Phlebo-idiot went Springer. Hollering, cursing and generally causing a ruckus with a man who outweighed her by two hundred pounds and was almost a foot and a half taller than her.
I had to get between those two, hoping the black guy could keep his cool, because if he wasn't, I was going to be a bloody puddle. Thank God he stayed chilled.
Since she hadn't made it past her probation period, it was easy to fire her.
And I did. Told her to clean out her locker and I'd have her papers at personnel ASAP.
Ran into her years later at an urgent care. She asked did I remember her?
"Nope, I didn't". She told me I fired her. "Yeah, you had blonde hair back then didn't you. I remember you well":..
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I thought this was good.
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