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Oprah Winfrey
奥普拉·温弗莉
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Credited with creating a more intimate confessional form of media communication, she is thought to have popularized and revolutionized the tabloid talk show genre, which a Yale study claims broke 20th century taboos and allowed LGBT people to enter the mainstream. By the mid 1990s she had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, and spirituality. Though criticized for unleashing confession culture and promoting controversial self-help fads, she is generally admired for overcoming adversity to become a benefactor to others. She has been ranked the richest African American, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was once the world's only black billionaire. She's still got the magic touch: When Oprah praised the Kindle, it sold out before Christmas. She's on track to launch OWN, her cable network, to 70 million viewers next year.
人们认为她创造了一种更加亲密而直白的媒体传播方式，改造了低俗的脱口秀节目，并使其更加流行。耶鲁大学的一项研究称，这打破了20世纪的禁忌，让同性恋、双性恋和跨性别者进入了主流社会。到上世纪90年代中期，她改造节目风格，转而关注文学、自我提升和精神等话题。虽然有人批评她导致忏悔之风盛行，助长了有争议的自救热，但是她还是因为克服逆境帮助他人而受到普遍的尊敬。她是美国最富有的黑人女性、美国历史上最慷慨的黑人慈善家，还曾经是世界上唯一一名黑皮肤的亿万富翁。她现在魅力不减：Kindle受到奥普拉的称赞后，在圣诞节前就已售罄。她正在筹建自己的有线电视网络OWN，明年向7000万观众推出。
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