Article Link Newsweek article on Oprah is not flattering.

[cherimac]

Originally Posted by Alta

I guess some folks at Newsweek don't feel you should be getting your health advice from Oprah:


http://www.newsweek.com/id/200025/page/1


I don't watch Oprah, or any of the other talk shows.

Me neither, and this reminds me of why I don't.

[Janga]

I just ignore Oprah when I see something about her.

[Sissy B]

Originally Posted by Alta
I guess some folks at Newsweek don't feel you should be getting your health advice from Oprah:


http://www.newsweek.com/id/200025/page/1


I don't watch Oprah, or any of the other talk shows.

Originally Posted by cherimac
Me neither, and this reminds me of why I don't.

I'm right there with you.

I'm sick of Oprah and I'm sick of her trying to tell everyone how they should live. I ignore Oprah as well.

~Sissy B

[Jane C]

The Suzanne Sommers clip is extremely disturbing.

[Lucky Star]

Originally Posted by Jane C

The Suzanne Sommers clip is extremely disturbing.

Agreed.

[F1mom]

Originally Posted by Susan G.

I'm more unhappy about some of the hucksters on PBS. There's one off-the-wall brain power guy who gets hours of air time, but his reviewers on Amazon has some alarming tales about this practice.

Can't trust something just cause it's on tee-vee, that's fer sure.

Are you talking about Wayne Dyer? He seems to run on a loop on our public tv station for some reason?

[SharonNYC]

Originally Posted by ronnee

I've always been deeply annoyed by Oprah and this just confirms my feelings. Northrup is another character that angers me. According to one of her books, my fibroids were caused by repressed anger and my miscarriages by my supposed ambivalence about being a mother. oy. Don't even get me started on Suzanne Somers. Just because you write a book doesn't maake you an expert. It's being an expert that should lead to writing the book.

Ronnee

Yes Ronnee! I agree with everything you say, especially the last sentence.

[videofit]

This isn't a nanny state (yet) and people are allowed to make up their own minds. I personally like having choices. Let's not forget that doctors used to scoff at the idea of washing their hands before surgery, so conventional wisdom isn't always the best and is always changing to reflect current research.

[videofit]

Originally Posted by ronnee

Just because you write a book doesn't maake you an expert. It's being an expert that should lead to writing the book.

Ronnee

So writers and journalists should not be allowed to interview the experts and write about their work?

[Susan G.]

Originally Posted by F1mom

Are you talking about Wayne Dyer? He seems to run on a loop on our public tv station for some reason?

I was thinking more of Daniel Amen, who is indeed controversial. This article mentions Amen before talking about another doctor:
http://www.salon.com/env/mind_reader...man/index.html

As these letter writers reflect, PBS, like Oprah, is deep in the infomercial business, and these book/product pushers get so much time on public television gives the appearance of implied endorsement.
http://letters.salon.com/env/mind_re...view/?show=all