Personally I can't stand the woman and her fawning troup of jugheads who hang on her every word on TV, in her magazine, and wherever it is she surfaces (supermarket checkout stands), but there is something to say for her business instinct.
There may well be a correlation between her stupid, "He's the ONE" when referring to the Magic Negro and her ratings having plummeted. Then again, there may not be.
She is (or was until late - dunno, really), the richest female "entertainer" in the US. You don't get there by being stupid on a consistent basis. So she has advisers who know what they're doing in keeping that goose (Oprah) laying golden eggs.
Oprah pretty much singlehandedly got Dr. Phil McGraw and that fast-talking dood Dr. Oz on the map. So she's instigated spinoffs that have done well. IIRC from Mrs E's raptured expression while she ogles Drs. Phil and Oz while I go trooping through the living room doing something constructive, their programs are on OWN. Aren't they?
Anyway, my point is, Oprah has intimated that she will retire, or did retire briefly before coming back to her fawning troup of glassy-eyed, slack-jawed, mouth-breathing women or women wannabes.
This simply could be the end of an era. Barry may not have anything to do with it.
