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05-27-2008, 02:20 AM
A Few Tremors in Okraland
Full Okra bitch story here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/business/media/26Okra.html?_r=2&ei=5065&oref=slogin&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
By EDWARD WYATT
LOS ANGELES — Okra Winfrey is still the queen of all media, but her crown is beginning to look a bit tarnished.
The average audience for “The Okra Winfrey Show” has fallen nearly 7 percent this year, according to Nielsen Media Research — its third straight year of decline. “Okra’s Big Give,” an ABC philanthropic reality show, beat every program on television except “American Idol” in its premiere week this winter, but steadily lost nearly one-third of its audience during the rest of its eight-week run, according to Nielsen.
The circulation of O, The Okra Magazine, has fallen by more than 10 percent in the last three years, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, and the magazine is now seeking a new editor in chief after the announced retirement of its longtime steward, Amy Gross.
And while Ms. Winfrey still displays a Midas touch when it comes to the endorsement of books and products, some of her latest picks have attracted criticism from longtime fans as she has strayed into new-age spiritualism and, perhaps more dangerously, politics. Her endorsement of the presidential bid of Senator Barack Obama appears to have alienated some of the middle-aged white women who make up the bulk of her television audience, many of whom support Senator Hillary Clinton.
“Not too long ago, she was like the pope,” rarely criticized by her ardent supporters, said Janice Peck, an associate professor of mass communication at the University of Colorado and the author of “The Age of Okra,” a new book on Ms. Sow Winfrey’s cultural influence.
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Full Okra bitch story here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/business/media/26Okra.html?_r=2&ei=5065&oref=slogin&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
By EDWARD WYATT
LOS ANGELES — Okra Winfrey is still the queen of all media, but her crown is beginning to look a bit tarnished.
The average audience for “The Okra Winfrey Show” has fallen nearly 7 percent this year, according to Nielsen Media Research — its third straight year of decline. “Okra’s Big Give,” an ABC philanthropic reality show, beat every program on television except “American Idol” in its premiere week this winter, but steadily lost nearly one-third of its audience during the rest of its eight-week run, according to Nielsen.
The circulation of O, The Okra Magazine, has fallen by more than 10 percent in the last three years, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, and the magazine is now seeking a new editor in chief after the announced retirement of its longtime steward, Amy Gross.
And while Ms. Winfrey still displays a Midas touch when it comes to the endorsement of books and products, some of her latest picks have attracted criticism from longtime fans as she has strayed into new-age spiritualism and, perhaps more dangerously, politics. Her endorsement of the presidential bid of Senator Barack Obama appears to have alienated some of the middle-aged white women who make up the bulk of her television audience, many of whom support Senator Hillary Clinton.
“Not too long ago, she was like the pope,” rarely criticized by her ardent supporters, said Janice Peck, an associate professor of mass communication at the University of Colorado and the author of “The Age of Okra,” a new book on Ms. Sow Winfrey’s cultural influence.
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