I understand it's her magazine and all but I'm sick of seeing her face on every single cover. Isn't it a bit self-promoting?
2007-01-21 12:12:37 · 20 answers · asked by Gina B 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Magazines
I DON'T BUY IT!! It's funny how people get so worked up over a simple question. Relax people
2007-01-21 12:30:12 · update #1
I enjoyed reading all of your input. I guess it's not so "self promoting" as it is annoying, hence the reason I don't buy it.....
2007-01-22 12:27:18 · update #2
Because it's her magazine. Plus her magazine stands out more because she doesn't have different celebrities grace the cover each month.
2007-01-21 13:01:43 · answer #1 · answered by Lov'n IT! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This has a lot less to do with self-promotion or vanity than you might think (though I'm sure there's some of that there, too). Oprah is nothing if not a smart business woman and two things are at play here...one, they actually did market testing and it showed that more people will buy her magazine if she was on the cover. The other is that she is trying to build a powerful, one woman, one name brand.
Most magazines have the selection of covers down to a paranoid science...for example, fans of the (recently canceled) soap opera PASSIONS used to get really upset that Soap Opera Digest rarely featured their show on the cover. The truth was every time PASSIONS was on the cover sales in stores slumped. If DAYS OF OUR LIVES or GENERAL HOSPITAL were on the cover, it almost always sold like hotcakes...these weren't the highest rated shows, but they sell magazines. So DAYS and GH are on the cover disproportionately. Oprah's fans are DEVOTED fans of Oprah, they love her, love her show, love her style, and love her life...they buy her magazine for many reasons, but mostly for her. Putting her on the cover makes sense.
However, when Rosie O'Donnell (who had a very popular show...the only one that rivaled Oprah at the time) took over McCalls, her contract required she be on every cover with her interview subject (she, incidentally, did not want this, according to court papers). People didn't buy "McCalls" for Rosie, and she did not help circulation. People do buy "O" for "Oprah."
There are bigger meglomaniacs in the world, some of whom even have magazines...Is there a greater master of self-promotion than Donald Trump? He would LOVE to be on every cover of his magazine, but at the end of the day, he is very successful, but not all that popular, admired, or emulated by the general public...particuarly women, who buy most magazines off the rack, so instead he stays off and settles for his name being on the magazine. Same was true of Martha Stewart (esp. before prison)...her work was admired and desired, her advice treasured, but she was not particularly liked and thus would not necessarily sell more magazines by virtue of her presence on the cover.
Oprah on the cover = more sales in an environment where the VAST majority of new magazines fail in the first year. You can argue with her choices, but she carefully manages her brand (because it IS her, if she makes a mistake it costs her personally)and hers was a wildly and unusually sucessful new magazine launch. It's simple math, really, if a little vain.
2007-01-21 14:20:08 · answer #2 · answered by B B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think Oprah actually answered this question in one of her mags. She said that she would rather not 'blend in' with all the other magazines that have different celebrities on their covers every month. I don't think it's so much self- promoting. She in millions of living rooms each afternoon. She doesn't need to do that anymore.
2007-01-22 01:58:32 · answer #3 · answered by YSIC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I find it amazing what happens to people when they go from rags to riches or from common folk to politician. You give people money and right away they start thinking they are like gods, like celebrities, like better than everyone else. I don't know what it is about people but they certainly like to feel the superiority over others. Personally I think it is because they take this life on the earth plane seriously as if it all really means something when in fact it doesn't mean anything. Very few people realize that life is beyond this earth.
2007-01-21 12:27:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bitter...and by the way, the school she built will help children who do not have any other opportunity educate them selves. So if she get some good press for it no harm no foul. At least the kids are getting something from it. When's the last time you did something nice, was it just self promotion or did you actually mean it?
2007-01-21 12:17:19 · answer #5 · answered by Cat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you've got as much money as Oprah you can do what ever you want. Maybe she wanted to model but no one would hire her so she started her own magazine so she can be on the cover month.
2007-01-21 15:06:37 · answer #6 · answered by hippieiam29 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree, even though it IS her magazine, she should have the Magazine called OPRAH, and have Gayle and guests on it.
Self-promoting=yes
But it sells and I think its whats on the inside that counts! :D
2007-01-21 12:22:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know, I noticed this too awhile back. As irritating as it may be its something we have to accept. Although its Oprah's loss ... well probably not... if someone skips a month because the cover confused them.
2007-01-21 13:59:36 · answer #8 · answered by AJ2006 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OMG isn't that annoying?! Who the hell wants to see a new picture of Oprah in their mailbox every week?! It's not like she hasn't been on enough tv guides! Dang! It's like "oh look. she's wearing blue again". big freakin' deal!
2007-01-21 15:36:24 · answer #9 · answered by Honesty given here! 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you think about maybe she's just saving face. I mean come on...Who else would want to be on the cover?
2007-01-22 09:50:05 · answer #10 · answered by jypsiiie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋