, the former Cincinnati news anchor and mayor who came to preside over the controversial and extremely profitable talk show bearing his name, has died, according to WLWT, where he worked as a news anchor. He was 79.
There is nothing about “The Jerry Springer Show” to be applauded — after all, his guests, representing an enormous variety of lifestyles deviating from what is perceived as the norm, were packaged as freaks and brought onstage to be mocked by the audience, and to be sternly judged by Springer.
Springer himself often seemed supercilious on the show — perhaps not so much because he felt this or that guest beneath him but because he felt the entire show beneath him. After all, this was a man of education, a former politician and news anchor. He became rich, of course, by hosting “The Jerry Springer Show,” and he likely justified hosting the show by saying to himself that if he didn’t host it, someone else would.
In January 1949, when Springer was just shy of 5 years old, the family emigrated to the U.S., settling in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York. He and his sister, Evelyn, grew up in a small apartment. Springer earned a B.A. in political science from Tulane University in 1965 — becoming “a full-fledged member of the civil rights and antiwar generation,” according to a 1989 profile in People magazine — and a J.D. degree from Northwestern University in 1968.
In 1982, Springer sought the Democratic nomination for governor of Ohio but finished a distant third.Springer began his career in broadcasting while still an undergraduate at Tulane, on the university-operated, progressive format college radio station WTUL-FM New Orleans. While mayor of Cincinnati, he offered commentaries that appeared on album-oriented rock radio station WEBN-FM under the banner “The Springer Memorandum.
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