 Oprah Winfrey - With apologies to Howard Stern,
it must be said that the reigning monarch of all media is actually Oprah Winfrey.
So powerful is the talk show hostess that her influence
extends beyond her daily one-hour gabfest into everything from the publishing
industry to the agricultural commodity markets. Want proof? Oprah Winfrey plugs
an unknown author on-air, and his book shoots to the top of the best-seller charts.
She shrewdly renegotiates her syndication contract, and Forbes
soon crowns her the world's highest-paid entertainer.
Oprah Winfrey kicks off a new exercise program, and thousands
of women immediately adopt her regimen. She establishes a television and film
studio in West Chicago, and the formerly sketchy neighborhood undergoes an economic
renaissance. Oprah Winfrey discusses mad cow disease on her show, and American
cattle futures plummet (in 1998, a group of Texas cattlemen filed suit against
Oprah Winfrey for libel because of comments she made on the program in question,
but a jury of eight women and five men eventually decided that she did not defame
the beef industry).
Yet, regardless of how high her authority climbs, good ol'
Oprah remains the plain-speaking, empathetic best-girlfriend to the modern women of America.
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