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Jerry Springer, who has died aged 79, brought to the world’s TV screens a side of America rarely seen in films and probably did more damage to the country’s reputation than any Leftist polemicist. In 2002 he became the subject of a notorious musical by Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee, in which the title character gets his comeuppance and is condemned to hell after being shot by a disgruntled assistant.
Jerry Springer became a journalist in 1991 after two failed bids for higher office. After training as a lawyer he made a foray into politics - but ultimately found his calling elsewhere.
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 and blurred images of nudity, died Thursday at 79. At its peak, "The Jerry Springer Show" was a ratings powerhouse and a U.S. cultural pariah, synonymous…