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...walls of privacy continue to be bulldozed by television. Video cameras are nosing their way into courtrooms and police patrol cars. The victims of child abuse and incest disclose their darkest secrets to Oprah, Phil and Geraldo. Now a spate of game shows -- half a dozen currently on the air, with several more in the works -- are eavesdropping on the few private areas left for ordinary people: love, romance and -- in leering if not explicit terms...
...Geraldo Effect...
...unknown Afro-American studies professor from City University of New York--not someone who spoke to a packed Sanders Theatre and certainly not a household name. This same rationale seems to explain why fringe political groups and bigots always seem so enthusiastic to appear on shows like "Geraldo" or "Donahue," despite the fact that they know that they will, practically without exception, be deplored and ridiculed by the audience...
...paper. But unlike those of most street people, the notes in Richard Kreimer's hands are not limited to the addresses of sympathetic friends and the opening hours of the local soup kitchen. There are some telling initials -- G,S,D, -- next to the phone numbers on those sheets. Geraldo. Sally. Donahue...
...America is only afternoon television, then people will care, in a slack- jawed way, whether Bill was unfaithful to Hillary with Gennifer. It is the kind of question asked on soap operas and on Oprah and Geraldo and Donahue. When the program ends, the audience will mute a commercial and scratch itself, glance out the window and see that reality still looks lousy. It will turn back to the television and click through the channels to find another hour of pointless junk...