Geraldo Rivera is reflecting on the life and legacy of Jerry Springer.
, which debuted in 1991 and aired in syndication until 2018, Springer was a colleague and friend to many, including Rivera. on Fox News co-host following the shocking news Thursday, where he looked back on their time on air and shared the positive impact his long-running show had on viewers and the daytime TV community.
"I think Jerry took it to a performance level, though. I think that Jerry knew what he was doing. He brought the combatants into the ring, and he let them tear each other apart. Whatever the issue of the moment was, he was very visceral, very real," he recalled."I always marveled at how calm he always was, holding his notes, and he'd step off to the side, and Steve or one of the other henchmen would go and separate the combatants.
"Jerry was a Renaissance man, he really was. I mean, former mayor of Cincinnati. When you look at his career, I didn't even know until reading his obit that he was born in the U.K. I had forgotten that he was British, to begin with, and a survivor of a family that fled the Holocaust. He had very impressive credentials. He went to Tulane, Northwestern. He got into the business, but he could do it all," the longtime journalist remarked.
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