Editing The Jerry Springer Show (section)

==Censorship==
All syndicated episodes of ''Jerry Springer'' were censored, regardless of time, to comply with [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) broadcast decency standards.
Initially, most [[profanity]] was [[bleep censor|bleeped]], but later episodes were bleeped for explicit language, sometimes to such an extent that speech became [[Understanding|incomprehensible]]; along with the mouth being spot-blurred so that viewers could not read lips. In addition, [[nudity]], flashing of [[breast]]s, [[buttocks]], and [[genitalia|genital]] areas; as well as the middle finger was [[pixelization|pixelated]]. After longtime producer Richard Dominick left, the show reverted to the traditional style of bleeping, which remains in place today. A ''New York Times'' report from April 1998 found that each episode had about 85 to 130 bleeps.{{r|harvest}}