How the Internet Turned Us All Into the Audience on Jerry Springer

by Eli Sanders
I love the way Retro Report is committed to a perspective that's wider than the last five minutes, and the current report is a provocative one.
It argues that social media's "outrage machine" is hardly a novel idea, and in fact is just a technologically advanced version of something that was invented in the 1980s and 1990s: "Trash TV."Perhaps the best example of Trash TV is The Jerry Springer Show, which staged a daily morality play for audiences that loved to shame the social vil