The debate on Jerry Springer’s legacy began long before his death on Thursday at the age of 79-years-old. Obituaries for the particular brand of exploitative reality television that dominated the late ...

Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional families willing to bare all on weekday afternoons including brawls, obscenities ...

FILE - Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Springer greets supporters at a rally on Fountain Square in Cincinnati, Ohio on June 3, 1982. Springer, the former Cincinnati mayor and news anchor ...

Jerry Springer appears at a restaurant in Stamford, Conn., on Aug. 7, 2009. Springer, the former Cincinnati mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show unleashed strippers, homewreckers and skinheads ...

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