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the television host Jerry Springerknown for the popular program “The Jerry Springer Show”passed away today at age 79; a spokesperson for his family reported that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a few months ago.
The son of a German couple, Springer was born in London, England, on February 13, 1944; he studied Political Science and Law, developing professionally in that field; he participated in great campaigns, including that of Robert F Kennedy. In 1971 he was mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, and two years later he began working at a law firm, where he remained until 1985.
However, the second part of Jerry’s career was in the media. After generating controversy as the host of a radio program with irreverent content, he began to gain an audience, later being a news commentator and finally a headline in “The Jerry Springer Show” starting in 1991.
Originally the concept was oriented to a serious format, but in 1994 the topics of debate that were treated generated curiosity among the publicraising the ratings to such a degree that Springer even surpassed the audience of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” In the Springer program (which was on the air until 2018) the people interviewed (who for many were hired actors) hit each other, said high-sounding words and exposed cases that were described as sordid and lacking in value; all this generated innumerable copies of the idea worldwide.
In 2019 it premiered Judge Jerry, a show with a slightly more sober tone that lasted three seasons and in which Springer applied his knowledge in law. The driver is survived by a daughter, Katie, from her marriage to Micky Velton; In an interview they did to him at the end of the 90s, he defended the content of the program that made him famous: “Look, television does not create and should not create values, it is simply an image of everything that is out there: the good the bad, the ugly Believe it: politicians and corporations who seek to control what each of us can see are a far greater danger to America and our precious freedom than any of our guests ever were or could be.”
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