Talk show host, Oprah Winfrey has opened up on why she quit
her job with the show ’60 minutes’.
According to Oprah, the show wanted her to change to fit
with their format. She revealed that those in charge of the show always
complained that she reports with too much emotion in her voice.
“I’m no longer doing that. I’ve removed myself from that, so
I have only 85 jobs now…it was not the best format for me. How should I say
this? Never a good thing when I have to practice saying my name and have to be
told that I have too much emotion in my name…I think I did seven takes on just
my name because it was ‘too emotional.’ I go, ‘Is the too much emotion in the
‘Oprah’ part or the ‘Winfrey’ part?’
I had a deja vu moment because I’ve actually lived through
this once before when I covered a story as a young reporter [where] the family
had lost their home and my boss told me that I reported it with too much
emotion. I had too much emotion in the story. But the same thing is true even
with a read [at 60 Minutes].
Concerning what they wanted her to do with her voice, she
said:
“They would say, ‘All right, you need to flatten out your
voice, there’s too much emotion in your voice.’ So I was working on pulling
myself down and flattening out my personality — which, for me, is actually not
such a good thing.”
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