American journalism moved further along on its own exciting trajectory toward truth and the all-encompassing love of reality today. Oprah, the Queen of Vanity and Fantastic Female Illusions, aired a show on How Other People Live. That’s no big deal. As our Maternal Monarch puts it, we need ”to see how we’re all interconnected. “ But, this was no ordinary look into an American home. [...]

 
Kidist Asrat Paulos, writer of the excellent Camera Lucida, a blog on art and culture, has walked down Oprah Boulevard. She has some of her own thoughts on the place. I am, as you know, an Oprah klunderhead, having only watched the show three times, and that only last week. I am among the .0000525 percent [...]

 
My first day of watching Oprah confirmed the worst.  I have now seen the light. What other television personality in America is powerful and wise enough to do what Oprah did today?
In her hour-long program, Oprah focused on two of the most vile problems facing private life in America: the habitual and addictive use of electronics [...]

  Years from now, a descendant of mine or yours, perhaps a little girl of eight or nine, will be standing on a busy sidewalk somewhere in America when she will turn with trusting eyes to her mother and ask, “Mommy, who was Oprah Winfrey?”
This little girl and her mother will be walking along Oprah Winfrey [...]