Amid the football and hangovers of New Year’s Day comes a taste of television history: the start of Oprah Winfrey’s sort newborn network, OWN, which began dealings today.
Writing on The Root, Jennifer Mabry sums up her feelings most the Oprah Winfrey Network in digit word: “disappointed.” Mabry writes that she’d hoped to wager Oprah enter the programming expanse and reinvent it–as she did when she began her talk show–”by existence ambitious, audacious and creative” instead of opting to “be conception of its further degeneration by adding to an already glutted mart of spectator dreck.”
After a few hours of OWN, Mabry describes the driving belief behindhand the meshwork as simple: “Find anyone with a heartbeat and a willingness to have cameras study them during their ordinary day-to-day life, and voilà — we’ve got ourselves a TV show!”
Ouch.
Beyond the simple difficulty of existence uninventive and boring, Mabry knocks Oprah for imperfectness to bring diversity to her network:
Of course, Winfrey is free to choose how she spends her millions. But it’s disconcerting, to feature the least, that of the breakout syndicated personalities she has helped to start during her reign as the queen of media — Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, Nate Berkus and Rachael Ray — none is a black male or female, sans (Gayle) King.
OWN is a uncomprehensible possibleness for Winfrey to create cable television that’s genuinely FUBU: For Us, By Us.
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