Word: springered
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When Ken Jobe, the news director at WLWT-TV in Cincinnati, Ohio, interviews prospective newscasters, the first thing he hears is, "I promise not to run for mayor." Anywhere else, that would be a lame joke; at Channel 5, it's a necessary disclaimer. Talk-show host Jerry Springer was an anchor at the station after serving as mayor from 1977 to 1978; current officeholder Charlie Luken quit his job as a WLWT anchor to run for the post. And one day last June, anchor Courtis Fuller read the news at noon, handed Jobe his resignation and jumped into...
...that could be you or me. And everybody else does screaming people." Says Walters, who persuaded Vanzant to try a talk show after seeing her on Oprah and inviting her on The View: "How many times have I seen, 'It's not my baby!' 'Yes it is!'?" But Jerry Springer et al. are thriving, while nearly everyone who has promised an alternative approach to sailor-mouthed moms and their accused babydaddies has failed or gone over to the dark side...
...there’s one thing I learned during my first year wandering the streets of Cambridge, it’s that people on the East Coast believe that anything west of the Alleghenies is a cultural black hole—a haven for cows, sheep and Jerry Springer guests...
...laugh at the unfamiliar, it’s also not nice to laugh at the ignorant. And, now that I know better, I’ve realized that Canadians know very little about America. Our knowledge is generally confined to a caricature of an obese, gun-toting, Jerry-Springer-bitch-slapping tornado victim...
...bray along these lines for a minute, going on about the cultural downside of American overprivilege (whining about dodge ball - dodge ball! - being of a piece somehow with Jerry Springer, Columbine, Jennifer and Puffy, Eminem and other manifestations of what might be called the opulence of democratized decline...