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Topic: Grunts, rants, and others
Recently there's been a lot of hash in the media about James Frey and his made-up life. Probably all due to an oversized ego and a good dose of greed, I guess. I cannot really judge since I have not read the book - and am unlikely to bother. And, of course, it is a bit hard to swallow the page-loads of injured egos everywhere, seeing how their accusing fingers are coming from modern media ghouls whose own adherence to the facts is tangential at best.
Unfortunately, within the fracas the biggest fake news item of them all, Oprah Winfrey, once again gets away. All the while raking in millions of dollars from that self-same lie she promoted so perniciously before. The fact that Mr. Frey agreed to reappear on the show, certain of gleeful humiliation by an pre-paid and O-primed audience (and the ever swelling, botox-lined tear-ducts of Ms. Winfrey), only proves that no matter how much you bend the truth in today's media circus, the agents (and your bank account) will always come out ahead.
Mr. Frey's story is most likely as "truthful" as the on-screen life of Ms. Winfrey: the only real difference is the rate of profitability.
While it would probably be best for the national psyche if both Ms. Winfrey and Mr. Frey simply disappeared from the public perspective (along with the likes of Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly and Pat Robertson), this is unfortunately not going to happen any time soon. Even if by some miracle the earth would open and swallow the lot, others, certainly as bad, are already waiting in the wings. The carnival called national media is in town and is here to stay. No matter how ugly things get.
