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Talk Show Trash

Talk Show Trash


    Jeff Pavelcsyk
    LE 100 sect-18
    March 3, 1997


These are some views on why talk shows are trash.   They do nothing at
all to improve any standard of living in this country, or others also.   The
shows are about ninety percent on topics that do not affect any of us, or that
the people in general have any sort of interest in.   All they do is pollute
today's already sickening society with trashy ideas so that some other idiot can
go out and try, after getting the idea from the show.
First we will start with Richard Bey, one of the self-proclaimed kings
of daytime trash.   Well did today's show have any meaning or share common
interests of the general public...not at all.   Today's topic was "engaged men
who wanted to tell their lovers about their secret gay lives", what trash this
was.   It started off having the men come out and talk about their women and then
about their gay partners.   Then in front of millions of people they brought out
the ladies on stage, to then embarrass them by talking in detail about their gay
encounter, I was almost sick.   One man actually told his fiancee the he had sex
with one of her male cousins.   Another told of his experiences of picking up
male gay prostitutes in the streets of New York City on many occasions.   Now my
question is that is any of this even necessary for people to watch, or the
embarrassment of the individuals and those mentioned in the show.
The next trash candidate would definitely be Jerry Springer, who tries
so very hard at the end of his show to put real-life meaning to the topics of
his show in "Springer's thought of the Day."   Topic this time is "pssst.. I have
a secret to tell you."   During the duration of this show topics ranged from a
forty year old women having an affair with an eighteen year old boy.   After the
women told her husband and him almost breaking down crying, they then brought
the boy who was wearing one of the husbands gold chains that the wife had given
him.   Next a...