Oprah winds down, for good and for ill.

[theoldwolf]

Oprah Winfrey has announced - or will announce formally tonight - that her show will be ending in 2011. There's no question the woman has been very influential, and has used her pulpit to raise the human condition.

One advantage of the show's ending is that the legion of hucksters, crap-peddlers and snake-oil salesmen will no longer be able to trumpet "Seen on Oprah!" in their deluge of spam. Not that I expect the flood to abate in the slightest... as long as there's a Silver Jeff to be made by ripping people off, the scumbags and drones will be looking for ways to do it. Tragically, "Social Proof" will always be a part of the disreputable marketing scene.

I think I shall rant some more about marketing in general later.

*Snarl*

Comments

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

Well, to be honest, I rarely venture past the first page of Google results. But Wentworth and Flexner sound very sloppy.

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

I would agree, but for the longest time they were the only available compilation of American slang terminology.