Topics Oprah Does and Does Not Cover

Oprah does not cover psychics. I know a lot of psychics want to be on the show. She did not really cover sex and sex topics, but she does now. She has asked the things like, is your husband gay? Or are you gay? Or have you been living a lie in your life? She addresses these kind of domestic issues that may look more salacious. What she finds is that there are a lot of people with these kind of hidden lies and she is bringing that to the surface.

Many people still ask me about her book club. For the most part, she has only chosen a couple of living authors for her book club right now and those are her fiction books. For some non-fiction too, obviously Elie Wiesel and who was the guy, James Frey?

That is not something that they are actively looking for. It is more about what happens in a smaller groundswell within Oprah's producers or has been brought to Oprah's attention, usually by a friend. If you have a non fiction book, meaning you are an expert in something, that’s fine, but it is not the book that is getting promoted, it is that are an expert on the topic you are covering in the book.

She has moved more into the political realm right now, more toward the political and the social. For all of you on the call, she is very interested right now in the way that our country is being led and how citizens are really making a difference on their own in spite of the way that the government is going.

The other thing that she is really focusing on is people who have charities or missions in their life where they really are impacting a huge number of people. One of the people who she had on the show then she interviewed for O Magazine was Genevieve Piturro. She created The Pajama Program. When she was starting to do volunteer work, before she created her own non-profit, she noticed that when she was reading to kids before they went to bed she said, "Aren't you going to change into your pajamas?" She remembers one kid saying, what are you talking about? What are those?

When she thought these kids were going to bed without their pajamas on she became committed to getting them pajamas so they could change into fresh, cozy pajamas and go to sleep with a good bedtime story and cozy pajamas. Many of these children come from abusive homes and their mothers were in prison. It was pretty amazing because the way the show went is that Oprah had let the audience know there was a challenge for them to get as many pajamas as they could.

One woman got 32,000 pajamas and they rolled them out in these big laundry baskets that you see in hotels onto the stage. She was committed to doing this and then Oprah got the whole audience involved. The audience raised about half as many pajamas as she had for the whole time that her organization had been in place. Oprah is asking citizens to start taking a role in helping other people who have established these charities or non-profits or visions. She is getting her audience and other people all over the world involved in this. It appears that this one of her focuses this year.

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[Barbara S Weikel]

Dear Oprah, I am a dog advocate. I didn't mean to start rescuing them and keeping them but I have and because I don't have a fence there's been a few incidents that have happen to my dogs. I live out in the country and I have almost an acre of land, I live next to a corn field. Two of my dogs have gotten hit by cars. One got eatin by Cyotes. I now have three dogs and I'm so afraid something will happen to them. I need to have a privacy fence so the cyotes don't see them and try to get them and to keep them from going out in the street. I can't even let them go outside to play for fearing something will happen to them. Oprah will you please help me get a fence, our finances doesn't permit it at this time. Sincerely, B W