Why have we decided to give her too much power? Why is it that we allow our buying decisions, our eating habits, our media consumption and everything else we do to be influenced by the one-sided opinion of some billionaire celebrity? We need to think for ourselves. The fact that Oprah Winfrey endorses a book as one she personally liked does not mean that we need to like it. We do not need to go out there buying everything Oprah likes. We do not need to take all advice she throws our way. We should not let Oprah, or any other celebrity for that matter, run our lives. The fact that she is successful does not mean a thing. It does not mean she is in anyway smarter than you. We are equally as smart as she is, and we should not let her make decisions about our lives from some studio. We should not all join Twitter just because Oprah did. I actually know of a friend who joined Twitter not because he is interested in the site's features, but because "Oprah joined Twitter." Absurd.
Personally, I hate Oprah's favorite things. This lady comes up with a list of things she loves, and because she loves those things, we feel we need to love them too. And so we go out and buy them — even when we don't need them. Are we this gullible? America's obsession with celebrity idol worship is heartbreaking and, to an extent, stupid. Fine, heroes should be celebrated and appreciated. But when we let them run our private affairs - deciding on everything from which book to read, to what clothes to buy, what to feed our families, how we should dress and conduct our relationships - then we are losing our sense of judgment and losing faith in our own ability to think rationally.
At the end of the day, we are all used. Companies get their products onto Oprah's show so that they can be a huge success. She praises a product, and then we go out to buy it, even when we don't need it. Start thinking for yourselves. Don't be a victim of Oprah hypnosis or any other celebrity's hypnosis ever again.
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Article comments
1 - Joanne Huspek
I can't stomach Oprah the TV show. I used to subscribe to her magazine, in the years after 9-11. There was good stuff in there, well-written emotional stuff, but not in the last few years, so I let the subscription go.
People who base their lives on another (famous) person's must do so because their own lives are less than satisfying.
2 - Life
OK........
Isn't media, in general, and advertisement the same thing?
This is really no different. Maybe you should attack the media at large and all the different advertisement companies that sells their products.
Oprah does not make these people do anything---they see it and because she like it-they want it....that's no different than seeing something on a commercial, then going out and buying it.