Oprah and Her Apology
photo credit mediaite.com "Oprah Winfrey Network"
Aaliyah Hankins, Senior Reporter
February 16, 2012
Filed under Opinion
The famous talk show host, Oprah Winfrey was completely criticized for promoting her new interview on Twitter last Sunday night.
As a new episode of “Oprah’s Next Chapter” appeared on OWN, Oprah’s new network, Oprah tweeted to her followers, “”Every 1 who can please turn to OWN especially if u have a Nielsen box.” Later, she posted a similar message saying, “Commercial Grammy people..u can turn to OWN.” The company Nielsen, who track television ratings, accused her of violating a policy against telling people to watch a certain program.
I don’t know if this criticism is completely fair because people do that all of the time. I do not know if just because someone tells people to watch a certain program, people will actually watch it. It all depends on the preference of the watcher. A person who likes “Crime Scene Investigation” (CSI) and other shows similar is not going to watch a show about dogs, unless they like the television show; therefore, media influence can serve as a sort of irrelevancy.
Viewers can find this in the form of commercials. Do the people that make the commercials have the right to do this? They are also marketing a particular program. I just think that this is how you get people to participate in a viewing of a show. That is how shows get popular.
After Oprah removed Nielsen’s tweet from her tweet feed, she tweeted response, “I intended no harm and apologize for the reference.”
