you hear foul shouting blurting from your child's bedroom. Curiously you walk towards

the room to find the shouting coming from the guests on the Jerry Springer Show. You

think to yourself, "why is my child watching daytime talk shows," or as the majority refer

to it, "Trash TV." The storm clouds have been gathering for quite some time now. Is the

end near for Trash TV? Concerned viewers, legislators, and press are worried about

television show content in general, however, some of our trashy Talk Shows have

received more than their fair share of attention in the last few years. What I'm concerned

with is, "What are these shows teaching our children and how does this affect our

Many of the guests on TV daytime talk shows are portrayed differently according

to the topic; however, the guests seem to all have something in common: their background

and behavior. Watching a variety of these TV daytime talk shows recently, I've observed

that the bulk of these guests all appear to be whites, Hispanics, or African Americans of

the lower or middle class. They all come from the same type of living condi

Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint believes that a child, unprepared and emotionally vulnerable, could

the Caucasian guests. Insinuating that the background of the guests is inadequate, they do

people who don't watch can continue to rebel against daytime talkshows and possibly get

Our culture is forming a bad habit of picking up the values of this "trash," yet we

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