Funny right? Springer happily admitted that
he doesn't watch shows like his own when he goes home, “What I watch are sports
and political news, because I'm a political junkie.
That stuff I love. I don't
watch my show: I've got some taste! I don't even tell my family I'm Jerry
Springer. They think I'm an insurance salesman! It's horrible,” he joked.
Springer was in town to promote Tabloid, a
show he's fronting for Discovery Networks that covers true-life crime and
scandals. His on-stage interview mixed wisecracks – “I don’t know why they
called me. Maybe they were drinking!” – with a spirited defence of the kind of
television he’s most associated with."The Jerry Springer Show is now in
its 23rd season.
Springer claimed that shows like The Jerry
Springer Show and Tabloid – the latter will air in eastern Europe, the Middle
East and Africa on Discovery’s new ID Xtra channel – have global appeal,
suggesting that if he were able to gather 20 16-24 year-olds from every country
in the world in a room, they’d find common ground.
“Within 30 seconds the kids would be talking
about who they're dating, sports, what's going on with school, did you watch
this movie, did you listen to that song? We're the same,” he said. “I know we
fight wars for our own identity. Stop it! We're the same. For some reason we
always want to think we're different and therefore better, but we're the same.”
Springer also drew a parallel between his
long-running chat-show and the growth of social media, as young people in
particular take to services like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to express
themselves.
“What is happening in the social media was
inevitable. The coming of my show 23 years ago was inevitable. What we are
observing, witnessing is the democratisation of culture,” he said.
“For thousands of years it was people sitting
in an audience watching something happen on a stage, on a screen, on a
ball-field. It was the audience and then the performers, whether it be sports,
theatre, music, whatever. What technology has done is increase the move towards
the democratisation.”
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