Always Stay On Oprah's Good Side

We've tried to stay away from snarky rejoinders with respect to the recent Oprah-memoir-"no such thing as definitive truth" imbroglio, and today feel vindicated for doing so after seeing BlogPulse's no. 13 link. We're not really... ah... down... with the Oprah experience, which we kind of think is, y'know... kind of cynically exploitative... and so we don't watch her program. But we learned a lot from this live-blog Gawker coverage of Thursday's program, which shows how, just as The Maven of Michigan Avenue giveth, so too may she taketh away. To wit: The Chicago Tribune's banner headline this morning was: "Oprah Shreds Frey In A Million Pieces," which we feel is almost blog-worthy. Oprah brought on author James Frey, whose book "A Million Little Pieces" she boosted and now is deploring, and basically killed the guy. For the rest of his life he'll be known as the guy who humiliated the most powerful force in American book publishing, and, in response, was pilloried. For Oprah, this was personal.

Posted by Philip Ewing at January 27, 2006 11:28 AM

Category: Celebs