Posted on 09/15/2009 8:56:28 PM PDT by kingattax
After a year in which she angered Republicans and Hillary Clinton fans by backing Barack Obama, and infuriated Christian ones by promoting a New Age religion book, Winfrey has been punished by declining ratings which fell to a record low.
The average audience for The Oprah Winfrey Show fell under seven million last season – a seven per cent slip on the previous year and its fourth straight year of decline.
Broadcasting experts also believe that the multi-millionaire Winfrey's relentlessly upbeat, anything-is-possible philosophy may be jarring with viewers struggling to cope with a recession.
Falling audiences are almost a fact of life in US television but Winfrey was believed to be almost invincible. She was previously thought to be blessed with an unfailing ability to tap into the hopes and fears of her predominantly white, female and middle class viewers.
Winfrey's show has fallen steadily from a peak of nearly nine million viewers in 2005. But observers say that she has accelerated her show's woes by alienating its more conservative viewers over the past year.
Janice Peck, a University of Colorado media professor and author of the book Age Of Oprah, said Winfrey compromised her non-partisan reputation by endorsing Mr Obama with gushing enthusiasm.
As her website was inundated with furious denunciations, critics noted at the time that many of her core viewers would have voted for Mrs Clinton.
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Dr. Phool, do you mean?
Cheers!
It’s racist.
> when you leave, oprah, take your little phony pal with you.
when you say pal’, you’re taking about her fat ass or her massive, phony ego?
Damn! I was just tying Oprah to ACORN on another thread.
Useless information/programming BUMP!
Now she can quite pretending to be straight. She can dump her “mustache” Stedman for good.
i meant obomba, but she can take all her other little sidekicks too
Chat up your racism elsewhere!
Oh how she loves to exploit victims for ratings!
Harpo stinks.
Who? The bald cheater has his own show. And the Lib Poop Doc has his own show too now.. Best friend Gayle is annoying. Maybe that’s who you mean.
When BROWN, and BLACK people, start seeing themselves first as “AMERICANS” , and only as “AMERICANS”, and not “Mexican-Americans” or “African-Americans”, then and only then will they begin to be accepted for who they are, and not for “WHAT” they are. They have to first accept themselves in this fashion, before they can expect OTHERS to accept them for who they are.
Gawd I hope so. she is annoying.
didnt gayle have her own show at one time too ?
I never watched ANY of her shows!:)
“Chat up your racism elsewhere!”
Agreed. But I wonder if she influenced many couch potatoes to vote for Zero when she declared onstage that “We NEEED Barack Obama!”
Unfortunately, she probably did....
She’s BEEN annoying for the longest. I’ve forgotten why she got famous in the first place. She really went far for someone with marginal talent. Hopefully her 15 minutes of fame—long, excruciating minutes—are up.
She’s always on in the gym locker room. Very irritating! She lost me (not that I was ever an avid watcher) with the beef thing.
It’s a racist attack on free speech!!!!
I think that her support of Obama made her partisan.
Housewives with different political agendas could watch her, and feel comfortable with her.
When Oprah showed her true political stripes, the conservative viewers stopped supporting her.
Good riddance.
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