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Monday, August 25, 2008
Courts - "I think it's a Jerry Springer-type show masquerading as a court"
TV "courts" - the story today by Diane Krieger Spivak in the Gary Post Tribune is headed "TV justice not so sweet," and presents an interesting cautionary tale. The report begins:
SCHERERVILLE -- A disabled Schererville woman is accusing producers of a new courtroom TV series of seducing her into appearing on the reality TV show, coaching her to be confrontational and then setting her up to be humiliated before a national audience.And Eileen Klapak says the $100 that "The Judge Pirro Show" paid her to drop her small claims suit in Lake County and appear on the show hardly makes up for the embarrassment she suffered during a 15-minute taping of the show last month. * * *
When the cameras started rolling, however, the mood quickly turned from friendly and supportive to angry and confrontational, Klapak said.
She said Pirro attacked her verbally, ridiculing her for hiring a contractor she didn't know, sitting idly by while the contractor slandered her, and repeatedly insulting her intellect.
"She called us both stupid and said we deserved each other and didn't award either one of us anything," Klapak said. "I was so upset I started crying hysterically. I think it's a Jerry Springer-type show masquerading as a court."
Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 25, 2008 08:06 AM
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