If you are here in Rio, try and catch The Oprah Winfrey Show on GNT at 8 pm. It will feature a segment on Rio de Janeiro. As Oprah runs about 2 weeks behind here in Brazil, I've already heard different things about this episode from a number of people back home, and therefore have had to try not to form too many opinions about what was featured until I see it for myself... it is an episode about women around the world, and apparently a woman from Ipanema and her maid were interviewed for the Rio portion. To view some "after the show" questions asked, click here.
Also on Oprah's site about Rio - a guide to traveling here (there is one for each of the Olympic 2016 Candidate cities)
I'm hoping some of you come back and let me know what you thought of the episode and how Rio and its women were portrayed. Can't wait to watch!
Funny thing...
I am just waiting to watch this tonight and was on the phone with my Mom telling her about it. She googled it and said "oh, this site "dailyriolife" has info!"..
Wow.
Posted by: Stephanie | November 04, 2009 at 07:05 PM
Now having watched the segment,I was disappointed. Rio is so colorful and full of life and positive energy, life here for kids can be really good...you didn't really get that from this show. Was it due to the Olympics choice? I hope not! I think she chose the wrong people to interview and I wonder if she got charged to enter the slums in Africa ever? Or India? I doubt it is just a Brasilian phenomenon.
Posted by: Stephanie | November 04, 2009 at 08:41 PM
We definitely noticed the more negative questions asked to the Rio housewife, although I'm glad they did pick a middle-class one. I read alot of comments on her website, but you have to take it with a grain of salt, you can't cover everything in an hour show. Also, I thought Rio was voted the happiest people, not Copenhagen?
Posted by: Pandora | November 05, 2009 at 08:32 AM
It's not the first time we get the impression that Oprah hates Brazil. Now it really looks like it has something to do with the Olympics choice, but Brazilians have been presented as shallow people which couldn’t be more mean. It would be great to see a more impartial approach.
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