Word: oprahism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...acts as a sympathetic neighbor, Oxygen can seem like a know-it-all older sister, which in a way it is, given the collective success of its founders: Geraldine Laybourne, who led Nickelodeon for 15 years; the production team Carsey Werner Mandabach, whose shows include Roseanne and Cybill; and Oprah Winfrey, who is Oprah Winfrey. The network was conceived to help modern women navigate their lives; it also wanted to merge television and the Internet. Its tone, however, felt preachy, and the Internet didn't quite pan out as expected. Now that some early shows have been jettisoned and website...
Current magazine issues such as Women and Guns and Oprah are also available...
...That infidelity-and-impeachment hiccup might seem to be a handicap - but only to someone who has never watched daytime TV. From Oprah to Rosie, America likes its talk-show hosts flawed and challenged. Personal woes? You got 'em. Troubled childhood? Check. Weight problem? You'll have fries with that! And the daytime-talk audience, heavily female and black, is the closest thing to your natural power base outside Chappaqua. You were already, in Toni Morrison's words, "America's first black President." Isn't America ready for its first black female ex-President...
Well, publishers and booksellers still have hungry mouths to feed. In the book industry, where profits are narrow, Oprah's endorsement of any title meant a minimum of 500,000 additional sales, says Jim Milliot, the business editor at Publishers Weekly. For the publisher, that translates to at least an additional $5 million in revenue. Among ambitious writers she produced an Oprah effect. They knew that editors were always happy to be offered stories they knew Oprah liked, the ones centered on family drama or personal struggle by characters who are scarred but who endure. Oprah, with her largely female...
...mostly giving up the book club now, maybe it's just part of her larger slow-motion retirement. Last month Oprah's company Harpo announced she would leave her show after the 2005-06 season. She has played with the idea of quitting before, but wrapping up her book club may be her way of saying, Look, I can quit while I'm ahead. The cities of Chicago and New York launched book projects that attempted, as she did, to mobilize whole populations to read the same novel during the same month. Whole populations shrugged. What mere government has Oprah...