The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday May 9th, 2023
Jerry Springer: Ringmaster of Civilization’s End by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
It involved bringing out the irregular or peculiarfrom society’s peripheries – at least as popularly perceived at the time. Granted a national, broadcasting stage, various persons of despairwould perform, if only for a spectacular,brief moment. Cue the chants of a studio audience and the threat of physical confrontation. And the late Jerry Springer, former news reporter and Cincinnati mayor, would be there, willing to market the performance and throw these samples of humanity upon screen and audience. Before the idea of incendiary, vapid reality television, there was The Jerry Springer Show.
It all began on the fifth-floor studio at Cincinnati, Ohio’s WLWT in September 1991.Initially, the programwas fed by a tepid mainstream, with audiences to match. Topics included the big if often skirted around issues in the social Darwinian world of US culture: poverty, inequality, gun control. Put another way, these were topics that might fail to garner the ratings, inducing a vast yawn of boredom. It did not take long for Springerto shed the chrysalis of journalism.
By December 1997, a staff reporter for the Cincinnati Post would write that Springer had found himself “top of the trash heap,” even as others came and went. He had discovered the formula of “lived experience”, drawing upon the endless well of antagonism offered by his guests. It was one that did not align with the defenders of boredom, those like Pamela Paul, who claim that it “teaches us that life isn’t a parade of amusements.”
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Black Lines #poem by David Barger
“White mountainous clouds reflect
Orange magma colored sky
As the sun dips below fading tree lines.
Miracle like rays of light
Shine through the tree arranged branches –
Pinpoint upon swing rocking by slight breeze.
Beyond wooden swing set”
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Ant-Biotics #15 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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