Oprah if one goes to her website has a loophole and disclaimer under the contact/submit form- it states that Oprah can and will not pay for a story or words submitted to Harpo- it also states the information and dates of the words and submission can be changed, with out discussion. You submit to her and ABC you then lose the right to your experience, the experience, idea, plan, product is no longer kept confidential- the disclaimer states it can be shared and sold, without a right given to its author. And you wierd, old pathetic celebrity leeches out there watching T.V. and reading online. Her entourage of celebrity wealth, protects her-,actually she claims its an "aura"- when actually its business connections and Hollywood power players....health food and a really expensive clean lifestyle which she can afford.
And lets cite a quick example here- if Oprah were a mayor (MAYOR), and worked for the government- and the public wrote to her office, and under the contact form of her government offices submit contact form it stated, as it does under Oprah's contact form online right now as of this writing July 10, 2009, that Mayor Winfrey retains the right to your words, can sell them to companies, change your information and dates of submission- would the public trust her?
She'd be in prison. Spell that P-R-I-S-O-N. Prison.
Oprah is not a healer of the sick- she tries to ail others and profits from their well being. If Miss Winfry, truly cared for the ill- she would not persecute criminals- which who by her standards are truly the ill of the world. Never does she help criminals besides herself. People who molest others, or killers, rapists, homeboys turned to crime all are to be punished- their personal stories and history also are portrayed in a negaive light- and she goes on witch hunts for individuals she wants to use as an example,..all the while using a liberal consumer- their compassionate weakness and pyschology to make $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Money talks and so does Oprah- but Oprah speaks she is speaking for others- only one catch she takes money which could have gone to the originator and person with the experience whose words are no longer theirs.
I have an inbox full- just full of spam mail from Oprah's show which is sent to my account because she sold my information and so do millions of people. Oprah works in publishing, her staff's writers also work in the media.
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Somers concedes she's not a scientist, but she is "a lay person passionately interested in preserving the quality of life and appalled by the lack of knowledge about this." She is particularly annoyed with the criticism of male doctors, saying they've never experienced menopause. But even though Somers reminds people she's just a layperson, she wasn't presented that way on the Winfrey program. And that's a problem, say experts. "My concern is with someone like Somers, whose only medical expertise is a personal one, giving medical advice to other people," explains Dr. Isaac Schiff, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Harvard Medical School. "When people see this on TV, they may be encouraged to try hormones, without fully understanding the benefits and risks. They should have had a physician, who is trained and experienced, sitting on the stage at the same level and presenting another point of view."
When NEWSWEEK contacted Winfrey for comment about the criticism from medical experts, her production company, Harpo, issued this statement: "Through two recent episodes of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' we began our national conversation about hormone therapy (HT) with the hope that women would take responsibility for their individual health and educate themselves on what options are available. We informed our audience about the differences between synthetic and 'bioidentical' hormones and the risks/controversy surrounding HT. Experts with varying viewpoints from the medical community helped us explain this confusing subject to our viewers. As was clearly stated in both shows, without endorsing any particular regimen, any decision to proceed with HT should be made in consultation with a physician based on an individual's health and history."
That's all sensible advice, but by putting Somers and her controversial ideas center stage , doctors feared that wasn't the message viewers would take home from the show. How exactly did Winfrey let her audience down? Let us count the ways:
1. Downplaying the Risks of HT
Although Winfrey read the FDA warning about the controversial and unregulated "bio-identical" hormones Somers promotes, the doctors got relatively little air time to detail the risks. Although everyone agrees that HT is the most effective way to alleviate menopausal symptoms like hot flashes and night sweats, solid research indicates that prolonged use of hormones can increase a woman's risk of developing breast cancer, endometrial cancer, stroke, heart disease and blood clots. There's also the research that indicates that breast cancer rates have been falling since HT became less popular in recent years. Generally, major medical organizations, like the National Institutes of Health, the FDA, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Endocrine Society and the North American Menopause Society now recommend taking the lowest effective dose for no more than a few years.
2. Big C Omissions
Menopause experts, including board-certified endocrinologists, have publicly criticized Somers's hormone theories calling them naive, misguided, and potentially dangerous. Winfrey, who has been known to ask some tough questions, didn't ask Somers about her public and hugely controversial insistence that breast cancer doesn't feed on estrogen, as most cancer researchers believe. (Somers tends to focus only on the minor studies that agree with her, rather than conclusions drawn after reviewing the bulk of the highest-quality studies.)
Nor did Winfrey ask Somers about her own history of breast cancer—Somers was diagnosed with the disease after she started taking her estrogen supplements—or more recent precancerous changes in Somer's uterus that led to her hysterectomy. (Privacy wasn't an issue; Somers has written extensively about both incidents in her books.) Winfrey also didn't question Somers about her decision to continue hormone supplementation after the cancer diagnoses or her latest cancer-fighting theory: that older women should "restore" their hormones to the levels they had in their 30s and start having periods again, because then they'd be more like younger women who get less cancer. That upside-down logic puts Somers at odds with just about every oncologist in the country.
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