Comments on: Oprah’s Big Give

By: B.Granger

B.Granger — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:52:46 +0000

Sun.Mar.30 Background music so loud, often drowned out the voices of the giver or receiver.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:27:51 +0000

The title is about marketing. If you call it, say, THE BIG GIVE, many people that know and love Oprah might not tune in. By putting her name on it, it guarantee’s that there will be no confusion as to who is the Executive Producer of the show and if you are a fan, you might want to watch. That’s marketing. It would be foolish not to include her name.

What about this show says it’s cool to be Oprah? This show has nothing to do with Oprah’s life. Sure, they do use some of the shows money, but contrary to popular belief, ABC is the network here, not Oprah. It’s their money.

If those of you out there can set aside your personal disgust for Oprah and the silly conventions that reality TV has entrapped itself with, there are moments in each episode of just plain human beings connecting with other plain human beings and helping them to the best of their current abilities.

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:39:33 +0000

Mark, you make a good point. Most of us would probably fall into that hypocritical category. But we are small fry compared to a network show advocating giving as some sort of game show. I would rather see a show about real people giving of their time and money, inspiring others to do the same. What do I get out of this show, other than it is cool to be Oprah?! Even the title, “Oprah’s Big Give,” tells you what the show is really about.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:32:06 +0000

And how do you people give, those that are criticizing this show? Do you give openly or in private, not telling anyone, not doing it for a write off, not announcing to your friends and family in any way, not doing it because you feel guilty, or you want to feel better in some way, because if you do any of these things, then you are a hypocrite.

Television is a business. Remind yourselves of that before you convince yourselves that you’d do otherwise if you were in someone else’s shoes.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:58:12 +0000

[Hanging head.] You’re right, Neil. There’s’ always a prize. And this is not just any old reality show, but one with Oprah, the queen of giveaways. Still, good things are coming out of it for the recipients. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

By: ingrid

ingrid — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:35:41 +0000

I completely agree Neil. It strikes me the same way as the huge charity balls on which people spend all kinds of money to attend, money on clothing etc etc while those funds could have gone a long way in and of themselves. It’s a weird thing though, what motivates people to give…

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:10:21 +0000

Heidi — C’mon, have you ever seen a reality show where they don’t win something at the end? They know there will be a prize at the end. Why even give the prize then?

I’ll be impressed if the winner gives the whole thing to charity.

Ingrid — And you are right. I didn’t really mean to make fun of the CEO for giving. I was more mocking the Oprah show as a model for the average person to help others without using her name as a calling card.

By: ren.kat

ren.kat — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:07:28 +0000

or just bitching would be fine.

By: ren.kat

ren.kat — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:06:56 +0000

Remember 911 2002. My remembrance poem included the two emails I got. One asking me to commemorate the day by lighting a candle. Then, about a week later, they asked me to do it again because someone wanted to take a satellite picture. It would be tragic if people only cared about world hunger when they see some movie-tart spooning oatmeal into a cinematically moving mouth. Keep bitiching!

By: andrea

andrea — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:19:17 +0000

I’m the bitch who doesn’t like Oprah. And there is something icky about the show. However, if she showed up at my door and gave my a whole ton of stuff, I might like her a little. I’m shallow that way!