“Fights, Camera, Action”: How Jerry Springer exposed the beginning of America’s decline

Before the man who transformed “The Jerry Springer Show” into a gladiatorial showcase of the worst common denominator took over as its executive producer, Richard Dominick made his living writing headlines for Weekly World News and the Sun such as “Two-headed Man Sings in Stereo,” “Toaster is Possessed by the Devil” or “My Wild Affair with Bigfoot. ” Years later, after Dominick had already made his mark on “The Jerry Springer Show” as its fortune-shifting executive producer, Mark Matthews (a pseudonym) was Springer’s guest along with his “wife” Pixel.