Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi) is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the United States. She is currently involved in many business ventures, but is most identified with her massively popular and eponymous talk show. She is currently ranked as the most powerful celebrity by Forbes magazine, http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/53/Rank_1.html as well as the ninth most powerful woman in the world.http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/11/O0ZT.html

Criticism

Oprah Winfrey has been scrutinized by conservative critics for allegedly championing liberal causes. One conservative critic, Myrna Blyth, editor-in-chief of Ladies' Home Journal magazine from 1981 to 2002, charges in her book Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness— and Liberalism—to the Women of America, that the "elite women of the media" allegedly sell unhappiness to women and tout false advice. http://www.700club.com/cbnnews/news/040423a.asp

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Liberal - Myrna Blyth - Ladies' Home Journal - Spin Sisters

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Additionally, some believe there to be a feministic gender bias in many of her shows, and a double standard about certain behavior. Shows about infidelity, for example, often focus either on the cheating men, or on the cheated-on wives. Critics believe Winfrey pays inadequate attention to cheating women, or only makes note of them in a throwaway, dismissive manner. Winfrey's Book Club has also come under fire, first for promoting books that were deemed of little literary value, and then even by one of its selectees, author Jonathan Franzen, who objected to his book The Corrections being chosen, believing that its selection would limit its potential male readership.

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Feministic - Author - Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections

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