Newsweek’s Cover: “Crazy Talk: Oprah, Wacky Cures & You” Oprah makes her audience feel virtuous for gaping at the misfortunes of others. What would be sniffed at as seamy on Maury is somehow praised as anthropology on Oprah. This is Oprah’s special brilliance. She is a gifted entertainer, but she makes it seem as though that is beside the point. Oprah is not here to amuse you, she is here to help you. To help you understand your feelings; drop those unwanted pounds; look and feel younger; get your thyroid under control; to smooth your thighs, nip and tuck your wrinkles, awaken your senses and achieve spiritual tranquillity so that you can at last be free to “Live Your Best Life. (Newsweek) Oprah Responds To NEWSWEEK’s Cover Story: (Read More) Reader Response: (Read More) Raina Kelley’s response on whether criticizing Oprah is appropriate: (Read More)
BET Networks Acquires Debmar-Mercury’s ‘The Wendy Williams Show’ After a successful four-market, six-week preview last summer on the Fox Television Stations in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and Detroit, the one-hour entertainment talk show hosted by Williams will premiere simultaneously on TV stations covering more than 95 percent of the United States and BET. (PRNewswire)
The National Review’s baffling Sotomayor cover At the beginning of this decade, becoming a practicing Buddhist was suddenly a celebrity fad. Tiger Woods, Tina Turner and Richard Gere all strove to sit beneath the Tree of Enlightenment. Perhaps it was some dim recollection of this trend that provided the creative impetus for the cover of the National Review’s latest issue. The cover image depicts Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, as the Buddha. (Salon)
Dr Pepper Learns How to Speak a Third Language Marketers are trying to appeal to the bicultural lifestyle of a growing number of young Hispanics with programs such as Dr Pepper’s Vida23, which taps into Hispanic culture’s music and mix of languages. (AdAge)
North Korea Sentences U.S. Journalists The ruling against Euna Lee and Laura Ling, reporters for San Francisco-based Current TV LLC, raises the prospect that they will be the first Americans subjected to North Korea’s gulag-style prisons, among the world’s most horrific, though it wasn’t immediately known where they would be sent. (WSJ) Observers Banned from Trial of U.S. Journalists North Korean officials have banned observers from the espionage trial of two U.S. journalists, officials said, United Press International reported. (Richard Prince’s Journalisms)
