JERRY SPRINGER - SPRINGER SLAMS TV 'COUNSELLORS'

TV host JERRY SPRINGER has slammed television personalities like OPRAH WINFREY for trying to encourage personal growth in the lives of their viewers. The 63-year-old, who is known for stirring up family tensions on his controversial show, insists it is not the role of a talk-show host to make the world a better place. He says, "That is where television crosses the line. Where you get a TV personality who says what you ought to do and pretend that you are taking this person and fixing their life. "How arrogant to believe that a one-hour television show can fix a person. I'm not advising them, I'm not qualified to do that. I'm a TV guy, a lawyer, I'm not a psychiatrist or a psychologist and I think it is wrong for television to pretend."