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Jan. 15th, 2008 12:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fenrisranger"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.
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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Date: 2008-01-15 06:40 pm (UTC)DEAR GOD.