Or maybe the segment was to teach us to have compassion for accident victims? Were we supposed to learn that it is bad to keep wild jungle beasts in our homes? Not for nuthin’, but I didn’t need to see this poor, poor woman, who now has a thigh transplanted onto her face, to know that keeping massive, wild African apes in the suburbs is never a good thing. Tell me what we actually learned by watching the saint of TV take the veil off the face of a blind, massively deformed victim of a feral animal mauling? Nothing, that’s what. ![]() They are not - repeat - not important learning experiences. It’s time to call these segments exactly what they are: exploitative, bad-taste, ratings grabbers. Those were just a few of the guests who’ve been headliners on “ The Oprah Winfrey Show” over the years - years in which the topics got increasingly more bizarre and tasteless.Īdmit it, had a tabloid talker (like, say, Springer) exploited these tragedies - during sweeps month, yet - the PC media would be all over him like a bad, bad smell.īut since these were interviews on “Oprah,” they were considered - even the disgusting, incestuous affair between a drug-addled daughter and her drug-freak father - somehow “important.” Was that the come-on of the Coney Island “Freak Show” barker circa 1930? A lineup of “ The Jerry Springer Show?” Hurry! Hurry! Step this way! See the woman who had sex with her father, the little girl with one body and two heads and the woman whose face was bitten off by a raging chimpanzee!
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