Emma Gray: Dr. Phil may be the quack provocateur America deserves — but he’s certainly not who we need.
after she was sued for libel by Texan cattle ranchers. In 1998, Winfrey began bringing McGraw onto “The Oprah Winfrey Show” as a guest expert, to discuss topics like marriage and parenting.McGraw was a hit, a Regular Guy with folksy charm who told it straight. And with hindsight, it’s not hard to understand why. Dr. Phil became a household name around the same time as George W. Bush was pitching himself to national voters as a folksy, Southern-accented, regular dude.
By 2002, Winfrey was producing a standalone show for McGraw: “Dr. Phil.” And it took off almost immediately.into McGraw’s on-screen evolution, when the “Dr. Phil” show started, it was predominantly “normal-ass advice for normal-ass people,” but it soon morphed into what Koul terms “Schadenfreude Television” — basically Jerry Springer “freak show” reality-style entertainment, but with the facade of authority.
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