Is Oprah Too Bossy?

Oprah Winfrey’s ratings are down slightly, as is the rest of television, and TIME magazine is the latest to hammer the Big O, citing her endorsement of Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama. Writer James Poniewozik, in his Tuned In blog, claims Winfrey’s simply gotten too bossy for her daytime congregation. “In the past few years, however, coinciding roughly with her ratings slump, Pentateuch Oprah has seemed to get the upper hand. Oprah has always reinvented herself every now and then—tabloid Oprah, literary Oprah, confessional Oprah. And her latest incarnation has become increasingly bossy and inclined to issue stone-tablet commandments…the key to bringing her ratings back up may be returning to her show’s theme that people need improvement, but that they, not Oprah, are the final key to their own self-perfection. People love it when you give them Pontiacs. But they still want to do the driving themselves.”

Do you agree or disagree? Is Oprah too bossy?