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Jim Bakker, Televangelist Behind 'PTL Club' Empire, Dies at 86
Jim Bakker, the televangelist who co-hosted "The PTL Club" with his first wife Tammy Faye, died Monday at age 86. The show drew 13 million nightly viewers at its peak in the mid-1980s before Bakker's fall from a sex scandal and financial crimes conviction.
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Left-leaning outlets emphasize Bakker's disgrace and criminal conviction, framing his death as the end of a cautionary tale about televangelism excess and fraud that dominated public consciousness in the 1980s-90s.
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Right-leaning outlets acknowledge the scandals and crimes that ended Bakker's empire, presenting a factual account of his rise and fall without additional editorial framing.