Chapter 945 Cold Reception or Discrimination?

Chapter 945: Cold reception or discrimination

Oprah Winfrey is another outstanding representative of the American dream.

She was born in Mississippi in the southern United States, where, although the Civil War has passed for more than a century, discrimination against blacks is still serious, and the Ku Klux Klan, which pursues white supremacy, is rampant. People who have seen the movie "Mississippi is Burning" This point will have a very intuitive feeling.

Her childhood was extremely rough, and it could even be said to be miserable. Her biological father was serving a sentence in prison, and her biological mother gave birth to several younger brothers and sisters with different boyfriends. In the eyes of her mother, Oprah was always possible. none.

And that's not the worst part. She was raped by a cousin at an uncle's house when she was 9 years old, and the experience became a regular occurrence - including by her mother's boyfriend.

She became pregnant when she was 14, and with the support of her father, who was out of prison, she gave birth to the child, but the child died two weeks after birth.

But fortunately, since then, she lived with her father and finally entered college. After graduation, she successfully joined ABC (American Broadcasting Corporation) Chicago branch WLS TV station.

In the beginning, she was a reporter, but because she often couldn't maintain neutrality, specifically, she was a bit like Daiyu, who often cried bitterly because of some things during interviews or broadcasts.

The last time, she went to interview a woman who had been sexually assaulted, and then she cried and told her experience of the same assault in her childhood in front of the camera...

Such a pretentious thing made her superiors think that she was not competent for her job.

Naturally, there will be a Bole, Dennis Swanson, the owner of WLS TV station. He thinks that Oprah's personality may be suitable for hosting a talk show. The show "Chicago Morning" was handed over to Oprah to host.

Here, most of the meaning is some waste utilization.

But what I didn't expect was that Dennis's attempt made him an outstanding talk show host.

Oprah, who failed as a reporter and host, finally found a platform that suits her

Although she, a black woman, broke into the world of talk shows dominated by white men for the first time, the ratings of "Chicago Morning" she hosted set the lowest ratings record, but she soon found her feeling.

She boldly showed her true self in the show, shed tears whenever she liked, disclosed her experience of being sexually assaulted in her childhood, and narrowed the distance with the audience with a "sincere, confessional" candid style, and quickly won the audience's favor.

A month later, this program became the first program of the year to break the high ratings record.

Three months later, the program surpassed Phil Donner's program in one fell swoop and became the gold medal program with the highest ratings—the latter had dominated the industry for a full 10 years.

In September 1985, "Chicago Morning" was extended to one hour, and it was named "The Oprah Winfrey Talk Show" after her, and it was broadcast simultaneously in 120 cities across the country.

After that, a popular talk show column and an American superstar were born.

On average, there is a program every two days, which attracts more than 33 million American residents to watch on average every week. Later, even the president lined up to be on her program...

She is so popular in the United States that many people say that if she runs for the president of the United States, she will definitely succeed.

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"I have repeatedly contacted the main creative team of the talk show. They are very interested in interviewing someone like Feng you, but in order to make the show more exciting, they need to know something about your preferences,"

On the way to Harpo (Harpo is the inversion of Oprah's name Oprah) Entertainment Group, Buchanan, who facilitated this incident, was a little excited. It is not an easy task to be on such a popular talk show.

Moreover, if the effect is excellent, it can play a very good publicity role for NEXTDOOR and Coin Star.

"I can understand," Feng Yiping nodded. Whether a talk show is exciting or not depends not only on the host's own skill, but also on the wonderful interaction between the host and the guests.

If the host and the guests have been communicating reluctantly, falsely, or ineffectively because they don’t understand each other, then the host and the guests will not be able to interact with each other, and even less so with the guests on the scene, then the effect of the program will naturally be poor. Might be good….

Originally, Oprah's team should collect relevant information on these issues, but they have an average of one program every two days. You know, the quality won't be too high.

However, when they arrived at the office building of Hapu Entertainment Group, everyone's faces were a little ugly, and only a small employee from the public relations department greeted them.

No matter how powerful Oprah is, no matter what kind of situation McDonald's is in now, Hapu Entertainment Group is always inferior to McDonald's. Even McDonald's sent a vice president of operations director downstairs to greet Feng Yiping. The arrangement is really quite inappropriate.

Feng Yiping was the first to recover. He was not a showman. Besides, he had heard about the arrogance of these people in the entertainment industry. Besides, the Oprah talk show is so popular now, it is only natural that they are more arrogant. thing.

Besides, with his current status, it would be too disrespectful to care about such a small employee, so he thanked the other party, "Thank you!"

"This way, please,"

The three of Feng Yiping and the others drank a cup of coffee in a conference room before a few staff members came in with file folders. They generally looked younger than Feng Yiping, and naturally they were a few years older than Feng Yiping. But it should be less than 30.

A blond staff member in the lead looked Feng Yiping up and down several times, "Mr. Feng?"

"I am," Feng Yiping sat in front of the conference table, clasped his hands tightly, and put them on his upturned thighs. His movements were very ordinary, but he still looked inexplicably imposing when he moved his energy and raised his body.

However, Americans have always disrespected authority, and at their home court, the blond employee said, "If there are no problems, you will be the first Chinese to appear on our column,"

In it, there is arrogance and obvious contempt for China.

Feng Yiping was not annoyed by such insignificant treatment one after another, but this sentence really made him quite upset,"

"To each other, this is also the first time I agree to appear on a talk show,"

He is not only the richest man in mainland China, but also a world-renowned young scholar, an entrepreneurial idol of young people in the world, and a well-known entrepreneur in Silicon Valley in the United States. He believes that his first appearance on American TV will still be very attractive.

I only have one, but there are many talk shows in the United States. They are proud, and I can be proud too.

Sure enough, when he is tough, the other party is soft. After all, in terms of wealth, Feng Yiping is a few blocks away from them. Hapu Entertainment has a talk show column with a weekly audience of more than 30 million, and Feng Yiping also has a company with more than 20 million active registered users. NEXTDOOR website.

"Mr. Feng, our talk show program has always closely revolved around life and is close to life. We hope that through the program, the public will be concerned about social issues, so as to play a certain role in prevention. Therefore, some issues may be more sensitive. Can you do you accept?"

"I believe in Miss Oprah's connotation and professionalism, and I believe that she will strike a balance between respecting the privacy of the guests and satisfying the needs of the audience," Feng Yiping then pushed the topic back.

He has watched a few episodes of Oprah's show recently. Generally speaking, Oprah, who looks like an old lady, also looks like the old lady next door in the show, and the overall style is quite humane.

However, her performance today is really not like the aunt next door. A guest like Feng Yiping came to her company and didn't even show his face? Is the arrogance of their company also adhering to her style?

It seems that this meeting room is monitored, just when Feng Yiping started to look around, wearing a purple dress, Oprah with a proud face on his face, walked in with two people smiling, "You Good Feng, nice to meet you,"

"Hi Ms. Oprah,"

This is really, how should I put it, an aunt who still can't show a bit of nobility in her high-definition clothes. No wonder so many people will reveal their hearts to her. Those celebrities really don't feel that she will pose any threat—— This is indeed a rare innate advantage.

But the aunt was not very friendly, "Feng, we need more information about you,"

There is not much problem with the words, but the tone of the speech makes people feel really uncomfortable.

Feng Yiping thought, is it because she is too proud, or because she is too young? Or is it because of skin color? Will the richest man in a white country have such an experience?

The phone vibrated in his pocket, Feng Yiping looked at it, "I'm sorry, I have to answer a call,"

A series of encounters today made him not very keen on this popular talk show. They are not very polite. Feng Yiping felt that he did not need to be too polite, so he picked it up at the table, "Hello, Kan Mr. Talupo, is it tomorrow? Yes, see you tomorrow then,"

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