It REALLY pisses me off that b***hes like this and Barbara Walters have so much power and so many followers.
She is a shameless namedropper.
Not as many as it is made out to be.
ABC made a big deal out of the ratings for "The View" being up, what they won't tell you is that they are up slightly in cities like NYC, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle. it the rest of the country they are falling like a rock. In fact in some markets infomercials beat out "The View" on a regular basis.
oprah has lost about a third of her audience since she having her OBasms and her media outlets (her syndicated show, magazine, TV network, etc.) are all hemorrhaging money and viewers/readers. If her TV show ratings tank during November sweeps I would not be a bit surprised to hear she is retiring from it. Why? Because her show no longer generates the revenue it did and TV stations are not going to pay the syndication fees she wants for it plus they will start moving it to less desirable time slots in order to put a better rated show as the lead in to their newscasts.