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Even so, the rest of television will remain. On Saturdays alone, kids can watch as many as seven hours of WCW and WWF wrestling. Daytime talk shows like Ricki Lake are aiming at younger and younger audiences. Six-year-olds can watch reruns of the raunchy sitcom Married . with Children well before their bedtime. Then there are the commercials. Pay attention, for instance, to an ad for Starburst candy in which the adult world magically disappears when you pop a Starburst into your mouth. The message is clear and dangerous: kids can make things better by ingesting this incredibly cool...
Well, you won't find that on Montel Williams or the Ricki Lake show. Over the top even by the standards of daytime TV, Days of Our Lives' satanic plot line is just one example of the frenzied effort soap operas are making to maintain viewers and desperately lure new ones in the face of dwindling ratings. Currently 10 daytime soap operas are on network TV, just more than half the number that were airing in 1970. One reason for the falloff is the profusion of Oprah-style talk shows, which are able to serve up story lines about real...
...event, however, has turned the spotlight on the lengths to which talk shows such as Jones, Jerry Springer and Ricki Lake will go to catch people off guard and encourage guest warfare. Reunite the callous beau with the pregnant welfare recipient he abandoned, and let the fun begin! Bring on the male stripper, and watch the prim housewife get red-faced! In raising the pitch, are producers deceiving guests to set them up for on-camera humiliation...
Americans don't think about issues anymore. All I hear people discussing is O.J. and Ricki Lake. No one discusses the fact that our children are not ready for the 21st century, because no one cares...
...preceded it. To bolster his thesis, he cites the rise of poignant alternative music, the popularity of earth-toned packaging and the disappearance of clothing with shoulder pads. His students are unconvinced. What was so great, they shout, about an era that gave us Robert James Waller and the Ricki Lake show? Ah, the professor replies sagely, but during the '90s one could attend a movie safely knowing that it would not star Judd Nelson...