Remembering Jerry Springer: A Life That Changed Television As We Know It

Exploring the man beyond the invention of “Trash TV”

Jerry Springer at the Musto Party in 2011, by David Shankbone, CC 3.0

Throughout history, there have been extraordinary people who live lives so rich and varied that they seem to belong to a category of their own. Gerald Norman Springer — known to all of us as Jerry Springer — is one such individual, a man whose incredible…