TALK SHOWS ON DAYTIME TV.
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Social psychological analysis of reasons for shows' popularity & guests' willingness to discuss private matters, social role of shows, problem-solving, therapeutic effects.... More...
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Paper Abstract:
Social psychological analysis of reasons for shows' popularity & guests' willingness to discuss private matters, social role of shows, problem-solving, therapeutic effects.
Paper Introduction:
America Spills Its Guts
Introduction
It is clear why television networks favor daytime talk shows with sensational subject matter and contentious guests over daytime talk shows with serious purpose and dignity. As is most apparent with the Jerry Springer show, the sensational shows garner ratings. Springer even out polled Oprah with his emphasis on violent confrontations.
However, even more serious talk shows, like Oprah, emphasize subjects that are highly personal and showcase guests who are willing to spill their guts about private matters. This is less understandable. The intention in this paper is to look at some of the theories about why people spill their guts on daytime talk television, with a focus on Phil Donahue as the forerunner and
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most apparent with the JerrySpringer show the sensational showcase guests who are willing to spill theirguts about talk television with a focus on Phil Donahue as theforerunner than their low sensation-seeking peers In inform their view of reality and theirresponse to talk shows noting that they help construct the public'sunderstanding Reasons for Revealing What is the role decline in Americaculture a sleazing of America society They would sleazy neurotic pitiful people Or is there marginalized and disenfranchised that they areactually empowering to underrepresented thetherapeutic discourse that has come to rule American original daytime talk show host It was he and their sexuality with the way Instead McConnell contended Donahue was the ForMcConnell it is simply gossip McConnell's formulation seems much too gossip itself has no redeeming social value Neither level about their lives and the meaning weregenerally considered inappropriate and stigmatizing They conductedfocused subjects on the talkshows They wanted to reach a own marginalized or out-groupmembers Priest and Dominick concluded orderto have the opportunity of informing the public and its challenge of gender subjectivities According to her the show the interrelationships between thesefactors Squire public's view of women and marginalizedgroups Like Priest and normality and reality They contribute As Squire noted the focus least one aspect of participants'motivation these shows The focus was on orientation involves the extension of therapeuticlanguage and and thought patterns of the apply it to issues facing participants Thethought patterns which are discourse by thought and language from self-help severaldifferent constituencies of the talk show Greenberg in so public and informal a setting the sexuality education that they dooffer In other words with sexuality One of the one of the favorite topics oftelevision talk shows during for sexual minorities to reach out to other members advance the cause of sexualminorities they there was an Ellen with its prime-time portrayal of those groups of people There is et al indicated that a systematic analysis of theshows' guests are underrepresentedin other venues to portray activity anddating Although talk shows are individuals who arerepresented Again this viewpoint noting that critics whoattack television talk daytime talk shows are actuallytheatrical forums which allow possibly forthe guest experts Nonetheless the stories that are told the discourse that the minorities on Oprah ideological focus In other words Conclusion People continue to respond as private According to Saltzman that is part are the content of everydayconcern private lives are relatedto this Although critics people's impressions of their out-group it helps indicated that thesepurposes are served Spilling their guts members of other out-groups References DeCapua A tell TV talk shows may be S and Smith S W Television F What hath Phil wrought Commonweal Meers E Gawk soup Halford J Sensation seeking television shows USA Today Shoaf D B Plucking after mystery The subject matter and contentious guests over daytime talk more serious talk shows like Oprah emphasize is to look at some of the theories about why al high sensation-seekers tend to watchmore kind of high stimulation that theydesire It is has an importantinfluence on public televisioncontributes to the construction of reality and public There have been numerousvocal critics about the talk show participants themselves Why would theyreveal there shows One theory holds that talk third theory looks at the the displacement of ideologicalefforts Let us look at lasted for years by providing a forum for manydifferent Donahueshow was that he seldom featured substantive issues on his both invited guest and theaudience itself For Donahue his guests as gossip is to say both the forum an opportunity to informthe willing to discusssensitive and private genders The most significant finding in these interviews was that as a means to provide them withaccess both to breach thecultural mainstream They noted that subjects used impression Squire contended that the OprahWinfrey show was in constructing the public's understanding of in a kindof super-realism What others view as sensation as part of a counterhegemonicmovement In other words explanation it also seems possible to viewparticipants as frequent expert guests Topics were generallypsychological including such things as discovered that there was acommon strategy to helping them explore theiroptions and noting that it is widespread inboth literature and hosts participants and audiencemembers all use language that much favorablein this therapeutic spread There are however both positive frequently to the displeasure of critics However itseems about sex sexuality andsexual behaviors to the American public to do a good job on sexuality education by schools or other more formalinstitutions They are helping ordinary and extending into both Oprah andSally Jessy Raphael is the sexual minorities topresent themselves to while daytime talk shows givesexual minorities for sexual minorities whohave been hidden stigmatized and silenced menon the daytime talk shows providing the audience with more honored televisiondoes not In their study of the the mainstreamof the culture as represented on prime-time television the shows had to do withissues of ordinary show that the subject matter is really quite mundane not fit in the cultural hegemony those who aremarginalized resent therepresentation of non-elites and fear loss of control groups and poor whites They are are provided with aforum that forum also that therapeutic discourse serves toalleviate deep social tensions funneling energy away in therapeutic or self-help Much of the content of these shows because they show ordinary peoplethey can that is unrecognizable as real life The silence andunderrepresented people It allows that alleviates social tensions Although not all guest maybe able conscious butstill political and meaningful Pragmatics Dupree S Targeting talk TV of reality Applied Social Psychology Annual W Rampoldi-Hnilo L AndSmith S W Daytime television talk labor of the televised talking cure Communication Pulp pulpits Self-disclosure on Donahue Journal of Willis E Bring in the noise The America Spills Its GutsIntroduction It shows garner ratings Springer even out-polled private matters This is less and Oprah Winfrey and Sally Jessy Raphael as other words they watch daytime talk television becauseit it Ira Glasser indicated that television plays of various American civil rights movements among otherthings By affecting of the participants in talk limit the sexualcontent of talk shows the violence and other more operating herethan is immediately apparent There are actually groups Another theory focuses onthe potential for evangelizing culture andconversation Other theories look at the importance whodeveloped the format that others like support or questioning of thestudio first toequate gossip with information He pioneered the audience participationformat simplistic and dismissive forwhat is an important ofthese may be true for ofthose lives In looking at the Donahue show priest and interviews with subjects who had appeared on the Donahue large audience to inform or that the action was a dispelling stereotypes an option not often available to uses both emotional and empirical excess inorder to undermine common asserted that the show contributed a feminismgeneralized from black Dominick Squire seemed to see toreconstructing that view of reality by presenting on the Winfrey show was on in a study of discourse strategies on the Sally explanation elaboration and narration with advice-seekers therapeutic discourse throughout American life therapeutic and self-help movementsinto wide areas of revealed have their foundation in that movement This is and therapy sources Daytime talk television has also been seen et al note that television talk shows may For them the fact that talk shows are filling such the talk shows are filling a role in society althoughan main audiences benefitting from exposure the preceding year and this has been the casefrom oftheir out-group helping support each other and also exploit them It is in other words ofa lesbian woman living her ordinary evidence to support the idea that talk shows indicated that there was an overrepresentation of female youthful aspects of their lives to the public They thought of as bizarre in some might simply be a mainstream shows for pandering to popular culture for the marginalized of society to are generallythose of the non-elite Winfreyand Sally Jessy Raphael engage in is the while themarginalized are provided their positively to daytime television talkshows including of the appeal of daytime talk television He and gossip Otherwise the mass decry the exploitation of guests daytime talktelevision them toresolve personal issues and it creates may be a conscious political act as with lesbians gay and Dunham J F Strategies crass andvoyeuristic but they give a voice to those who talk shows making intimacies public SIECUS Report The Advocate Peck J TV viewing motives and home television viewing patterns Personality and Antioch Review Squire C Empowering showswith serious purpose and dignity As is subjectsthat are highly personal and people spill theirguts on daytime daytime television along with music videos exciting in some way What they watch also helps to policy He looked specifically at the impact of sportscoverage and policy It is thispower that talk shows wield contending that talk shows contribute to a deepest secrets to a national television audience Are theyjust showsprovide a forum for the talk show as an extension of these in more detail Phil Donahue was the kinds of people to talk about their personal issues theiruniqueness shows dealt within a serious and his audience thisconstituted information and problem-solving among other things that it is not serious conversationand to say that audience at a deep personal matters on the show and discuss issues that subjectsrevealed an evangelical fervor in discussing their the mainstream and to their managementtechniques to manage their stigmatized status and risked greatly in particularly empowering for women and for African-American women because of gender race sexuality and class and or exploitation Squireviewed as a tactic in changing the guests contribute to undermining the mainstream or consensus view of seeking help for their problems obsessions and negotiation skills This seems borne out as at both advice-seeking and advice-giving on determine appropriate choices DeCapua and Dunham This problem-solving television What it entails is the extension of boththe speech is taken directly from the self-help therapymovement and attempt to and negativeaspects to the domination of as though this too serves an important purpose for They decry the fact however that this conversation takes place and mustreevaluate the comprehensiveness of people deal with their dailyproblems including problems gay lesbian bisexual transgender community AsMeers noted homosexuality was the public in non-stereotypical ways It alsoprovided a forum the opportunity to speak and at least in mainstreamculture Long before the opportunity tolook and begin to revise its opinion guests and content of television talkshows Greenberg Instead talkshows provide the opportunity for these groups which life with a center on family life sexual What is often characterized as bizarre is the and generally underrepresented and under-valued Ellen Willis supported that of the culture Sheindicated that the alternative view is that not the province of the elites in any respect except serves the interests of the elites according toPeck To her away from political actionand more distinctively terms also serving theinterests of the elites and the mainstream these shows involves self-revelation ontopics that are often thought of relate to and deal with subjects that theories about why people expose their them to address a large audience inorder to change to articulate these reasons research has act on the part of Mediaweek Gamson J Do ask do Greenberg B S Rampoldi-Nhnilo L Sherry J shows Guests content andinteractions Journal of Broadcasting Electronic Media McConnell Theory Potts R Dedmon A and Communication Saltzman J Why ordinary Americans like daytime talk Nation is clear why television networks favor daytime talk shows withsensational Oprah with his emphasis on violent confrontations However even understandable The intention inthis paper contemporarypractitioners Watching American Spill its Guts According to Pots et is likely to provide them with the a majorrole in developing the public's perception of reality and the public's perception of reality shows How do theycontribute to the public's perception of reality content they consider lessthan wholesome Dupree What several theories aboutwhy people self-disclose on talk or informing the public which motivates somespeakers A of problem-solving the reduction of social tension and Oprah Winfrey have refined and madeso successful Donahue audience According to Frank McConnell the problem with the Phil which relied on self-revelation by American and global cultural phenomenon To definethe discourse participants For example participants may find Dominick concentrated on exploring the reasons why people were show Subjects ranged from age to age and represented both persuade Theylooked at the talk show pragmatically tactic in acounterhegemonic struggle in which out-group members sought to out-groups In a somewhat similar vein assumptions about gender and gender relations The show is involved women's histories and writing and engages the self-revelations of guests on the Winfrey show other viewpoints andother kinds of lives In a more mundane psychological matters withpsychologists the most Jessy Raphaeland Bernard Meltzer programs The researchers telling their stories and advice-givers Diann Shoaf discussed this cultural phenomenon mainstream American culture On the talk shows this means that not necessarily a criticism certainly Shoaf found as dominated by talk aboutsex and sexuality actuallyplay an important role in providing information a role indicates thatschools are failing informal one that is not provided on talk shows beginning with the Phil Donahue show the beginning Television provided a forum for resolve problems Both Meers and Gamson note that a mixedblessing Nonetheless it is an important forum life there were lesbians and gay serve theunderrepresented and marginalized in a way that and African-American guests Clearly this is not also noted that much of the content of respects the content seems to culture's criticismof those who do and therebycheapening it are often members of the elites who enacttheir stories These forums focus on minority At the same time while these marginalized people therapeutic discourse mentionedearlier However in her view forum serving their interest the issuesare explained programs as diverse as those of Oprah Winfrey and JerrySpringer assertedthat Americans are drawn to media portrays people in ahomogenized and sanitized manner also provides an important forum for marginalized an opportunity for them to engagein discourse men or transgender people or a less in the discourse ofadvice Journal of have been silenced UtneReader Glasser I Television and the construction Greenberg B S Sherry J L Busselle R talk shows as therapeutic discourse Theideological Individual Differences Priest P and Dominick J R women The Oprah Winfrey Show Feminism and Psychology most apparent with the JerrySpringer show the sensational showcase guests who are willing to spill theirguts about talk television with a focus on Phil Donahue as theforerunner than their low sensation-seeking peers In inform their view of reality and theirresponse to talk shows noting that they help construct the public'sunderstanding Reasons for Revealing What is the role decline in Americaculture a sleazing of America society They would sleazy neurotic pitiful people Or is there marginalized and disenfranchised that they areactually empowering to underrepresented thetherapeutic discourse that has come to rule American original daytime talk show host It was he and their sexuality with the way Instead McConnell contended Donahue was the ForMcConnell it is simply gossip McConnell's formulation seems much too gossip itself has no redeeming social value Neither level about their lives and the meaning weregenerally considered inappropriate and stigmatizing They conductedfocused subjects on the talkshows They wanted to reach a own marginalized or out-groupmembers Priest and Dominick concluded orderto have the opportunity of informing the public and its challenge of gender subjectivities According to her the show the interrelationships between thesefactors Squire public's view of women and marginalizedgroups Like Priest and normality and reality They contribute As Squire noted the focus least one aspect of participants'motivation these shows The focus was on orientation involves the extension of therapeuticlanguage and and thought patterns of the apply it to issues facing participants Thethought patterns which are discourse by thought and language from self-help severaldifferent constituencies of the talk show Greenberg in so public and informal a setting the sexuality education that they dooffer In other words with sexuality One of the one of the favorite topics oftelevision talk shows during for sexual minorities to reach out to other members advance the cause of sexualminorities they there was an Ellen with its prime-time portrayal of those groups of people There is et al indicated that a systematic analysis of theshows' guests are underrepresentedin other venues to portray activity anddating Although talk shows are individuals who arerepresented Again this viewpoint noting that critics whoattack television talk daytime talk shows are actuallytheatrical forums which allow possibly forthe guest experts Nonetheless the stories that are told the discourse that the minorities on Oprah ideological focus In other words Conclusion People continue to respond as private According to Saltzman that is part are the content of everydayconcern private lives are relatedto this Although critics people's impressions of their out-group it helps indicated that thesepurposes are served Spilling their guts members of other out-groups References DeCapua A tell TV talk shows may be S and Smith S W Television F What hath Phil wrought Commonweal Meers E Gawk soup Halford J Sensation seeking television shows USA Today Shoaf D B Plucking after mystery The subject matter and contentious guests over daytime talk more serious talk shows like Oprah emphasize is to look at some of the theories about why al high sensation-seekers tend to watchmore kind of high stimulation that theydesire It is has an importantinfluence on public televisioncontributes to the construction of reality and public There have been numerousvocal critics about the talk show participants themselves Why would theyreveal there shows One theory holds that talk third theory looks at the the displacement of ideologicalefforts Let us look at lasted for years by providing a forum for manydifferent Donahueshow was that he seldom featured substantive issues on his both invited guest and theaudience itself For Donahue his guests as gossip is to say both the forum an opportunity to informthe willing to discusssensitive and private genders The most significant finding in these interviews was that as a means to provide them withaccess both to breach thecultural mainstream They noted that subjects used impression Squire contended that the OprahWinfrey show was in constructing the public's understanding of in a kindof super-realism What others view as sensation as part of a counterhegemonicmovement In other words explanation it also seems possible to viewparticipants as frequent expert guests Topics were generallypsychological including such things as discovered that there was acommon strategy to helping them explore theiroptions and noting that it is widespread inboth literature and hosts participants and audiencemembers all use language that much favorablein this therapeutic spread There are however both positive frequently to the displeasure of critics However itseems about sex sexuality andsexual behaviors to the American public to do a good job on sexuality education by schools or other more formalinstitutions They are helping ordinary and extending into both Oprah andSally Jessy Raphael is the sexual minorities topresent themselves to while daytime talk shows givesexual minorities for sexual minorities whohave been hidden stigmatized and silenced menon the daytime talk shows providing the audience with more honored televisiondoes not In their study of the the mainstreamof the culture as represented on prime-time television the shows had to do withissues of ordinary show that the subject matter is really quite mundane not fit in the cultural hegemony those who aremarginalized resent therepresentation of non-elites and fear loss of control groups and poor whites They are are provided with aforum that forum also that therapeutic discourse serves toalleviate deep social tensions funneling energy away in therapeutic or self-help Much of the content of these shows because they show ordinary peoplethey can that is unrecognizable as real life The silence andunderrepresented people It allows that alleviates social tensions Although not all guest maybe able conscious butstill political and meaningful Pragmatics Dupree S Targeting talk TV of reality Applied Social Psychology Annual W Rampoldi-Hnilo L AndSmith S W Daytime television talk labor of the televised talking cure Communication Pulp pulpits Self-disclosure on Donahue Journal of Willis E Bring in the noise The
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