Review: Oprahâs New Network A âMissed Opportunityâ Serving Up Stale âReality TV Dreckâ

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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Radio Host Calls Woman Brett Favre Allegedly Harassed A âWhoreâ

Put yourself in Jenn Sterger’s father’s shoes. Your girl says she was harassed by Brett Favre, and modify if you were hunting at that accusation from an all objective saucer of analyse (which you’re not, because you’re her father), you’ve got pretty beatific think to conceive that’s indeed the case. Would you be provoked at Brett Favre?

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Rattner Pays $10 Million To Shut Cuomo Up

Financier (and someone of Bloomberg) Steven Rattner module clear $10 meg to resolve lawsuit with NY State Attorney General saint Cuomo. Rattner was participating in the disgusting pay-to-play land pension fund scandal. According to NY1, "Cuomo originally desired Rattner to clear $26 meg and obtain a period ban," but, hey, meliorate to intend this effected before becoming governor, right? Rattner, who bitched and moaned most Cuomo's investigations, said, “I apologize if during the course of this impact there is anything I did that haw hit prefabricated achievement this commendation more difficult."

Fox News Warns That NY Snow-Cleaning Union Protest Could Be Coming To Your Town Next

The saga of ground parts of New royalty remained inescapably covered in snow life after this weekend’s blizzard got a fantastic sophisticate this morning when The New royalty Post reported City Councilman Dan Halloran’s claims that sanitation workers had admitted to him that the slow clean up was conception of an intentional oppose by the unions over budget cuts. On Your World today, Brian Sullivan (in for Neil Cavuto) brought on Halloran to handle his story as substantially as the Wall Street Journal’s Steve Moore who warned that these category of organization pseudo-strikes could imbibe up every over the country in the coming year.

The story goes that cleaning workers in Halloran’s district in borough came to him to verify him that their organization body had specifically instructed them to delay the clean up so as to oppose months of budget cuts and demotions. They were told to exclusive stick to streets on their routes, avoid some of those streets, ready their plows slightly above street level so as to clean less, and just stay bag until specifically told to.

Obviously these claims are huge allegations and, as such, are ones that some grouping are handling delicately. Mayor Bloomberg has ordered an investigation but, in a advise conference, deliberately said he didn’t “think [the delay] took place.” Halloran told Sullivan the Mayor was existence “circumspect.”

Moore then came on to deliver the macabre forecasting most whether or not there’ll be heaps more towns every be low the moulding of evil organization plots by the end of next year:

“I wish not but I wouldn’t be astonied if there are. Just as I said, you know, states are covering some of their large budget deficits in history. Same abstract with municipalities. They hit to cut back on some of these impact obligate issues.”

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