Posted April 10, 2008 6:00 AM
(The Washington Monument is that slightly dark area of pixels in this photo of a fog-shrouded Washington.)
Good morning.
Here are a few Washington events of note for Thursday, April 10.
The Business Roundtable is releasing the results of its latest CEO Economic Outlook Survey.
The Senate Armed Services Committee is holding a hearing on the situation in Iraq with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen.
The Enough is Enough Campaign is releasing a study of BET and MTV daytime music video programming.
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The Queen of Trash TV pays a price for supporting Obama. (From Politico.com)
"Seventy-four percent of Americans reported favorable impressions of Oprah in a January 2007 Gallup/USA Today poll."
"And then... Oprah announced on CNN’s “Larry King Live” on May 1, 2007, that she would officially endorse her longtime friend Barack Obama for the presidency — the first time she had ever thrown her support behind a political candidate. “I think that my value to him, my support of him, is probably worth more than any check,” Oprah told Larry King.... Almost instantly, Oprah’s popularity in America plummeted. An August 2007 CBS News poll showed only 61 percent of Americans were favorably disposed to her — a considerable drop of 13 percentage points from a similar survey conducted just seven months prior..."
"But by the time Fox News/Opinion Dynamics asked Americans about their attitudes toward Oprah in a survey..., Dec. 18-19, Oprah’s favorability ratings had dropped even further — to 55 percent — the lowest level of favorability ever registered for Oprah in opinion surveys. Oprah’s negatives also spiked, with one in three respondents (33 percent) reporting unfavorable impressions of her."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9427.html
Posted by: MJ | April 10, 2008 8:12 AM