Famous Birthday of The Day - Oprah Winfrey

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Todays celebrated famous birthday of the day is Oprah Winfrey



Winfrey is an internationally-known celebrity noted for her highly influential talk show as well as for her philanthropy. She began her career as the host of AM Chicago, which, following its early success, was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show and expanded to a full-hour format. In the mid-1990s, Winfrey adopted a less tabloid-orientated format and began covering important social issues like abuse, addiction, and depression. Why did Texas cattlemen sue Oprah in 1998?

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Why did Texas cattlemen sue Oprah in 1998?


Because in 1996 she made a comment when interviewing Howard Lyman - a veggie, who was talking about mad cow disease in the UK, after heariing what he had to say she said "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger."

The next day, the U.S. cattle market plummeted.

They didn't win though.

Never really liked Oprah, she always seems a bit namby pamby to me. She just doesn't have the grit to interview people that need tough questions asking of them like say Anne Robinson.

But anyway,