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Oprah Winfrey Named '60 Minutes' Special Contributor--And She'll Bring Her Golden Touch
Forbes.com ^ | 1/31/2017 | Madeline Berg

Posted on 01/31/2017 6:50:18 PM PST by simpson96

Oprah Winfrey—businesswoman, philanthropist, actress and former TV host—will join CBS' 60 Minutes as a special contributor, the network announced Tuesday morning. The veteran interviewer will begin this fall, and, like other contributors, she won't appear on every episode of the Sunday news program.

"In its beginnings, 60 Minutes did hardcore investigative pieces, as well as features involving celebs or nonfamous people of note," says Les Rose, a professor at Syracuse University's Newhouse School and veteran photographer and field producer for CBS, adding that Winfrey will likely do the latter. "When there is a celebrity or sensitive situation, she will be the go to."

"I’ve been a big admirer of 60 Minutes since my days as a young reporter. I’m so excited and proud to join forces with this historic news program, which for me represents the bastion of journalistic storytelling," Winfrey said in a statement this morning. "At a time when people are so divided, my intention is to bring relevant insight and perspective, to look at what separates us, and help facilitate real conversations between people from different backgrounds.” (snip)

"We won’t see Oprah going to Iran or Guantanamo Bay," says Rose. "But she will be able to bring eyeballs to the show."

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 60minstrashtv; fakenewsisoprah; fauxcelebrities; liberalstars; trashtv
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1 posted on 01/31/2017 6:50:18 PM PST by simpson96
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Her “touch” is now cow patties.


2 posted on 01/31/2017 6:53:22 PM PST by nopardons
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She is a POS!!!


3 posted on 01/31/2017 6:54:16 PM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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“Over 9000.” Remember that, Orca?


4 posted on 01/31/2017 6:57:10 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!! Shadilay!)
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I agree.


5 posted on 01/31/2017 6:57:18 PM PST by simpson96
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IMO she is racist. Only got into a black candidate’s Presidential run.
Gave us a Muslim sympathizer a lot of access and left us all with 11 trillion more in debt.


6 posted on 01/31/2017 6:57:52 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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She going to do an eating segment ?


7 posted on 01/31/2017 6:58:46 PM PST by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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If she sings it’s over .


8 posted on 01/31/2017 6:59:57 PM PST by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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Haven’t watched her for years and years and years and then it was once a year. (If that)


9 posted on 01/31/2017 7:00:30 PM PST by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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10 posted on 01/31/2017 7:02:14 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: A CA Guy


11 posted on 01/31/2017 7:02:32 PM PST by simpson96
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More diet tips from the Queen of binge and purge.


12 posted on 01/31/2017 7:03:47 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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I’d prefer Snoop Dogg or Pee Wee Herman over her.


13 posted on 01/31/2017 7:04:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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14 posted on 01/31/2017 7:05:36 PM PST by simpson96
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The bookies will have a field day with this: who’s her first guest? Zero or Hillary?


15 posted on 01/31/2017 7:06:45 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you." President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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16 posted on 01/31/2017 7:07:35 PM PST by simpson96
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To: HarleyLady27
She's a hater of old white people for certain. She made her fame and fortune upon the support of white people, many of them old.

Oprah Tells FOX News Host ‘All White People Have To Die’, Her Reasoning Is Unbelievable

“There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism,” Oprah said, “and they just have to die.”

17 posted on 01/31/2017 7:08:07 PM PST by MamaDearest
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It'll ne some black person.

She lost the white audience long ago and her own T.V. channel is in the dumper.

18 posted on 01/31/2017 7:09:10 PM PST by nopardons
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Who?


19 posted on 01/31/2017 7:09:43 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: simpson96

With all the Nepotism in Media I would have thought Chris Wallace. Huh.
Ya know since him and the tree he fell from were, and are such Great Americans.


20 posted on 01/31/2017 7:09:55 PM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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