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[commotiocordis]

"Discovery Communications and Winfrey announced a deal Tuesday where the Discovery Health network will be turned over to Winfrey next year, becoming OWN — the Oprah Winfrey Network."

Whut? I mean, I don't get Discovery Health at home, nor at the gym. But if I'm over some place (meaning relatives, hotels, etc.) that does, I like that channel (even if a lot of it is oversimplified junk). "Trauma, Life in the ER" is still a pretty cool show. "Trauma, Oprah in the ER" will not be. She's just another TV daytime talk show nobody to me, and one with no background in anything health-related to boot. It's not like this affects me, but a whole network for one person? That's taking this Oprahmania to an extreme. Hell, I thought the O magazine was taking it too far. This is so far past the line that you can't even see it anymore.

*shivers* I can just see it now. Oprah reruns, Dr. Oz fake health specials telling us all things we already knew, fitness shows that are thinly veiled weight loss book/website sales pitches, (all of the above being that which were on the episode that was on when I was up last night, except maybe not Dr. Oz but somebody else doing the same thing) etc.

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[rainbowjumpsuit.livejournal.com]

OPRAH REALLY DOES NOT NEED HER OWN NETWORK.

DEAR GOD.

[geonncannon.livejournal.com]

That means she now has TWO networks... Discovery Health and Oxygen. I can barely stand her show that last's an hour. Why on earth does she need two networks AND a magazine? Unless she admits it's a stepping stone in her bid for universal domination.

*shakes head*

[crashcart9.livejournal.com]

Oxygen is hers too? This I did not know.

Horrible, this is. I've never really seen her as anything special to begin with. Now she just looks like a narcissist.

I think she must be planning to run for president. Or at least overthrow Michelle Obama.

[geonncannon.livejournal.com]

*nods* They call it "Oh!," and they (or at least they used to) air Oprah's shows towards the end of the day before infomercials.

*hides from her*

You might totally have a point about running for President. Some guy in... like Kansas, I think? had an "Oprah 08" campaign. Freaky weird guy. It was on the Daily Show a while back.

[chaosity.livejournal.com]

That's our Oprah. Taking over the world, one network at a time.