Oh dear god!
I thought EP was short or Ex-Prisoner too.
I don't buy the shit about anybody collecting personal data for iniquitous purpose. Why? Well, I've been hanging out around me fellow walking wounded former POWs now for some years and no such thing has ever happened.
I feel the same about Oprah as you do, EP (if I may call you that). It's show business and a bit of newage guruism, not journalism. Remember that Oprah launched Dr. Phil in his new career so he could go on to ship kids off to Provo Canyon on national TV.
As far as getting a dissenting view on her forum? I think it's a long shot. I'm trying to remember what the the issue was. But a bunch of ppl I used to talk to went to the Oprah show bearing signs and banners, hoping to get them in front of the camera, however briefely. Oprah's crack security team keyed in on it right away and very efficiently retted the audience of all dissenters prior to shooting.
But go ahead and write. Maybe some of the fan base will get the message and possibly notice their guru's callous duplicity.
Just PLEASe quit sniping at each other over imaginary hobgoblins. At least call a short truce while we have company. Mark Levine may not have anywhere near the quantity of audience the Montel and Oprah have. But I think they have more intelligence than the whole crowd put together. And they're interested, at least for the moment.
If they can get you to ask the wrong questions they don't have to worry about the answers
--Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (Proverbs for Paranoids)