Turn It Up Mike: Oprah

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Its none of our business, so why is it news worthy?

Last Friday I confessed I'm not a huge fan of Oprah, and that's comment is on my turnitupmike dot blogspot dot com with every day's comments and links to relevant stories for anyone who wants to follow up on something I raise, and today's is a bit of a follow up from that.

One of the issues that came up recently about Oprah was her sexuality and relationships, not just Oprah, this sort of closet sexuality rumour gets spread around from time to time.

Frankly it is none of my business but what is is the validity and veracity that some media give to unsubstantiated rumours.

Now I'm no cheer-leader for what I might call the minority sexual persuasions but what I don't understand is why someone would make such accusations at all.

Is it their way of saying I know these people so well I know something you don't, then they ride the gossip wave for their 15 minutes of fame.

These kinds of rumours and accusations are a public mischief blurring the lines between factual credible news and unsubstantiated rumour and innuendo.

I know there will be some people saying what friends Oprah has and what the details of her relationships with those people is newsworthy … Turn It Up!

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http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/carrie-fisher-says-people-know-john-travolta-is-gay-and-dont-care/story-e6frewyr-1225969703655

Miradna Divine writes on Sunday -

http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/mirandadevine/index.php/dailytelegraph/co mments/newsflash_oprahs_best_friend_is_a_woman/ .Miranda Devine

Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 09:23am

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Oprah. This Aussie asks you to stick to entertainment, not religion, please.

Oprah has come to Australia but I have confession I'm not a fan.

Its not the over the top characterisation of an excitable and opinionated celebrity talk show host that she has made her own that I'm not keen about.

It is the religious cult leader role that she's made out to be.

Sure she'll have lots of people tuning in to see what she says and who is on her show and I'll admit she has worked up quite a production team and together they produce quite a show.

It is good entertainment and I don't have anything against that, nor do I have anything against her enjoying the same freedom of religion and freedom of speech that we all enjoy.

So what's my problem with Oprah?

I'm more interested in what her guests have to say than her religious views and comments and sermonising and speculation on things like what universal power unites or how this universal energy unites us all.

I'm not interested in what Mr E, Eckhart Tolle's religious teachings are about the niceness of the universal energy. I've make my own religious choice thank you and well look maybe it is trivial but taking religious advice from a guy like an “E-Toll” with lots of promises of a faster way to get where we want to go … yeh Turn It Up

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