Olesker: Oprah's Secret to Success—Be Yourself
On Wednesday, "The Oprah Winfrey Show" will end. Columnist Michael Olesker takes a look back at where her career began: in Baltimore.
The Oprah Winfrey Show wraps things up on Wednesday, and all of America can’t get over it. She’s made billions of dollars. She’s got millions of adoring followers. As she leaves to breathe life into her very own network, everybody wonders: How did so much magic happen to one woman? They should look to her years in Baltimore, where the secret came to her one glorious morning when she co-hosted People Are Talking with Richard Sher on WJZ-TV. Oprah discovered honesty in front of the TV camera. Who could have imagined such a thing? TV reporters are marketed as instant experts on everything they cover. It’s their public persona, even when it happens to be absurd. One day they’re covering a street shooting, the next struggling to dissect a state…
Graham
4:39 pm on Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Great for Oprah, may she continue to prosper. Mr Olesker, good to see you doing articles again. I loved reading your articles in the Sun papers and the News American if not mistaken.. more ›