Posted on 01/26/2006 12:09:39 PM PST by Mike Bates
Today's Oprah Winfrey program featured her interviewing James Frey, author of "A Million Little Pieces." The book has come under fire for being much less than accurate. Greatly due to Ms. Winfrey's endorsement of the book, even after its inaccuracies and fictions had been detailed, "A Million Little Pieces" enjoyed incredible success.
This morning Ms. Winfrey told Frey, "I really feel duped." Reuters reports: "In 19 years in television 'I've never been in this position before,' said Winfrey. . ."
The talk show host was being disingenuous She's been duped before. Journalist Michael Fumento notes one example from 1987, when the talk-show host asserted:
"Research studies now project that one in five – listen to me, hard to believe – one in five heterosexuals could be dead from AIDS at the end of the next three years. That's by 1990. One in five. It is no longer just a gay disease. Believe me."
The problem, from my perspective, is that Oprah's viewers do believe her. Even when she's been duped.
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Much less than accurate? It has been exposed as a pack of out-and-out lies!!!!
OPRAH and THE VIEW... one has to consider the audience.
Well, doesn't that qualify as much less than accurate?
Well, it's humorous that some people remember what her obviously faulty memory cannot...
What is the book about, anyway?
I thought some hyperbole would help!
If I were of a mind to sue, I'd certainly go for Oprah's very deep pockets instead of the author's. And if I were a doctor or the treatment center in MN that was defamed by his lies, I'd positively be suing both of them for big time damages.
A little hyperbole goes a long way.
When a conservative makes a mistake based on bad info, it is a big fat 'lie'. When a liberal knowingly lies it is 'less than accurate' or 'fake but accurate'.
I'm sure some of Oprah's book club fans can tell us.
A guy who claims he's a real bad-ass junkie that fought with cops, did hard time in the slammer, and was practically tortured in rehab, but overcame his addiction all by his own will power, and now thousands of losers are finding hope in his message to "just hold on."
Of course, he made everything up. He grew up a spoiled rich boy, probably took a few drugs, never had any run-ins with the law, and did some time in re-hab. He tried selling his book as a novel. It was rejected. So he retooled it as his life story, a true memoir. That's how it has sold so much. That, and Oprah's gullible hawking.
Or as the author of this fiasco says, it 's the "emotional truth"
Gaaaaag!!
The amazon Customer Reviews are probably better than the book itself (which I won't read). The duped Oprahites are zealously defending this masterful writer's work of art, while everyone else is mocking them for being punked so badly:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307276902/qid=1138307759/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9888165-4187003?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
Have to give him an A+ for spin.
Did he really? The "emotional truth"?
"The names, places, people, incidents...none are true. They're all made up. But the emotions...I REALLY felt that way."
Kind of stretches the boundaries of non-fiction.
Life Story of a violent drug addict who reforms himself after several prison terms and soulsearching.
Actually the make-believe life of self-aggrandizing, selfish drug addicted preppie who lied about every aspect of his life just so he could sell a book nobody wanted.
I don't normally watch Oprah but I have it on right now. Should be verrrrrry interrrresting.
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