January 2011
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“Winfrey is one of the brightest — and most popular — personalities to have graced television, wielding power as a cultural tastemaker. One would therefore hope that Ms. O would use her second act to improve the television landscape — by being ambitious, adventurous and creative — and not be part of its further degeneration by adding to an already glutted market of voyeuristic dreck.”
—The Root’s Jennifer E. Mabry sums up her feelings for the new Oprah Winfrey Network, which launched on Jan. 1. Not everyone hates it, but not many love it, either. (via theweekmagazine)
