We interrupt this news-you-don’t-roll-your-eyes-at site to talk about Oprah

You know, when I was running this damn thing from 2003 – 2011, posting about Oprah and her army of unblinking terracotta warriors (aka viewers/readers) at least weekly, I used to look wistfully to a future in which I’d be free of this nonsense. Sadly, children, life doesn’t always work out the way you dream.

• Here she is talking American Dirt and “lessons learned”;
• Turns out the “lesson” they learned was to drop any book with a hint of controversy (I feel super badly for the My Dark Vanessa author);
• Like it or not, she holds the delicate testicles of the publishing industry in the vice-grip of her lifestyle empire’s fist, so hopefully she does some repairing;