Word: oprahization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard professor rarely join families torn by incest, wives who hate their mothers-in-law and women who love Michael Bolton on the Oprah Winfrey Show...
Such tales are the daily stuff of talk shows, of course, leading some prosecutors to blame Oprah and company for making jurors more sympathetic to novel defense strategies that try to excuse the accused's behavior. "I call it the Oprahization of the jury pool," says Dan Lungren, attorney general of California. "It's the idea that people have become so set on viewing things from the Oprah view, the Geraldo view or the Phil Donahue view that they bring that into the jury box with them. And I think at base much of that tends...
...what does Oprah Winfrey have to say about Oprahization? The queen of talk is willing to concede some culpability. She says she and her colleagues have made society more sensitive to the idea that crimes are not committed in a vacuum. "What happened to you in the past is a part of who you are today," she says. However, she adds, "If, in the process, we have made people think that people are not responsible for their lives, then that is a fault." Ever the pioneer, she delivered that opinion last February on a segment entitled Can You Get Away...
...Oprah Changed the Way Juries Think...
...that manners spring from a certain moral view -- that you do tribute to the world and the people in it by being kind and showing respect, by sending the note and the flowers, by being loyal, and cheering a friend. She was a living reminder in the age of Oprah that personal dignity is always, still, an option, a choice that is open to you. She was, really, the last aristocrat. Few people get to symbolize a world, but she did, and that world is receding, and we know it and mourn that...