Jerry Springer

The “Jerry Springer show” is a very well know American TV show, this show is hosted by Jerry Springer, who is a former politician. “The talk show is videotaped at the NBC Tower station of WMAQ-TV in Chicago and it is not currently broadcast on any NBC-owned stations. A popular show, it has been broadcast during the high morning, afternoon, and late hours of many syndicated TV stations since the early 1990’s”. (www.google.com, Jerry Springer show, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The-Jerry-Springer-Show).
The “Jerry Springer show” is a talk show where families with troubles in their lives come to talk about their problems in front of the studio audience, whereas, the audience and the host (Jerry Springer) will offer their suggestions on how these troubled families can solve the situation they’re in. This talk show has been characterized as the “Trash TV” talk show, because the topics of this show mainly focus on, adultery, homosexuality, prostitution, transvestism, hate group membership, pornography, racism, homophobia, divorce, infidelity, and many other situations. The show was voted for the “worst TV show ever”, and they were proudly bragging about it. “Currently the show boasts that’s it is an hour of your life you will never get back, and wasting technology since 1991.” (www.google.com, Jerry Springer show, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The-Jerry-Springer-Show).

The Jerry Springer show became more and more popular, because it gained a lot of success. The guests of this show are from a low-class, and have a low level of education. The people came in front of the audience with their family or partner, and were confronted about one of the topics mentioned before, prostitution, homosexuality…etc., and usually this confrontation leads to loud screaming, chair throwing, fist fights, and even removal of clothing. Women expose their breasts to the crowd and men took of their pants and underwear, which gave the show a lot of attention and increased its popularity.

“On July 12, 2002 the sons of nanny Campbell “ (www.google.com, The Jerry Springer Show , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The-Jerry-Springer-Show, ) wanted to sue Jerry Springer, the producer and the distributor, because Nanny was killed by her ex-husband after they got on that show, the sons of Nanny went against Jerry Springer saying that he “created a mood that had lead to murder”.
A lot of major figures I television wanted the removal of the show such as religious priests, and did not like the show at all, considering it to be a “bad taste”, the show was called a pornography show, even Jerry Springer the host of the program was starting to be considered as an inappropriate choice for a speaker in major events.

In my point of view the show Jerry Springer is like a circus, the people who get on the show do not have respect for each other or for themselves. It sends a very disturbing message to the public, about the American-style, and their way of living. It gave people the wrong idea of the American’s society. I think the guests and the audience are really stupid, and even the topics spoken about are very cheap. An example of a topic that was displayed is “I married a horse”. I think Jerry Springer has gone too far with this kind of topic, which is about a man who is describing his marriage to a horse, who he has been married to for 5 years, and another woman who is sharing her romance story with her dog to the audience. I think such topics are fake and too exaggerated, but thinking of it the program might be fake, but if it wasn’t it wouldn’t have achieved this much success, what I mean is when the audience see a man throwing a chair on his ex-girlfriend’s lover people are going to find it entertaining, so I think that’s why the show exaggerates and fakes a lot of details, to become more successful.

As for violence, the show encourages a lot of violence, and after researching it turned out that the producers of that show always make sure that there will definitely be a fight on stage, and in the backstage the producers encourage the guests to scream at the other person and to fight that person back.
I, myself watch the Jerry Springer show, being on air for so long proves how successful it is. The naughty themes discussed every time on the show, the guests behavior, and even the host (Jerry Springer) made the program different than any other programs. The topics of the show may all seem to be different but they all talk about one think which is sex, but to make this topic even more interesting they add the sex part to adultery, divorce, homosexuality…etc, in addition to the fist fighting, hair pulling, kicking, and verbal abuse. It doesn’t matter if the guest is male or female they just get in front of the audience and use violence to grab people’s attention.

In conclusion, the “Jerry Springer show” may seem a very shallow talk- show, but in the end it satisfies the viewers’ need for violence, and entertains them, and in my own opinion if the show dint include violence and sex I don’t think anyone would really be interested in watching the program.