Granted, I am not a fan of Oprah. I feel bad that her dog died, just a very teensy bit… but why the fuck is this news? Are we so starved for tidbits of information on celebrities that even news of a famous person’s dog dying merits copy?

Get some goddamned perspective people. Oprah is not superhuman, she is someone who happens to be famous and she lost her dog. Get over it… and go read some real news, watch CNN or something but stop making celeb life events news when the same shit happens to people all of the time all over the globe without a whisper in the media.

Oprah Mourns Death of Her Dog Gracie

By Associated Press
Published July 18, 2007, 3:20 PM CDT

NEW YORK — Oprah Winfrey is mourning the death of her 2-year-old golden retriever, Gracie.

“Weeks have passed,” Winfrey says in the August issue of O, the Oprah Magazine. “And the pain has not subsided. Every time I think about it, my heart starts racing and I feel like I just got stabbed in the chest.”

On May 26, Gracie choked to death on a plastic ball that belonged to Sophie, Winfrey’s 12-year-old cocker spaniel, while out with her dog walker and two other golden retrievers, Winfrey says.

“I ran barefoot out of the house and found the dog walker and one of my security guys pumping her chest,” Winfrey, 53, recalls. “Just as I reached them, the security guy looked up and said, `I’m sorry, ma’am. We tried everything. I’m sorry. She’s gone.'”

Winfrey — who “stood there dazed, stunned, crying” as Gracie was placed in a golf cart — says she learned this lesson: Enjoy life but remember to slow down, too.

“She never stopped moving. Was energy in motion. … I have never seen a being, human or animal, always so full of joy,” Winfrey says of Gracie, who ran amok and gulped food and treats. “This dog lived every moment as though it were her last.”

Winfrey says she “got the message” to slow down and catch her breath when Gracie died.

“I don’t believe in accidents,” says the host of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” “I know for sure that everything in life happens to help us live.”

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http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/

Copyright © 2007, The Associated Press

Published by cypheroftyr

Tanya DePass is the founder and Director of I Need Diverse Games, a non-profit organization based in Chicago, which is dedicated to better diversification of all aspects of gaming. I Need Diverse Games serves the community by supporting marginalized developers attend the Game Developer Conference by participating in the GDC Scholarship program, helps assist attendance at other industry events, and is seeking partnership with organizations and initiatives. Tanya is a lifelong Chicagoan who loves everything about gaming, #INeedDiverseGames spawn point, and wants to make it better and more inclusive for everyone. She founded and was the EIC of Fresh Out of Tokens podcast where games culture was discussed and viewed through a lense of feminism, intersectionality and diversity. Now she’s a co-host on Spawn on Me Podcast. Along with all of that, she’s the Programming Coordinator for OrcaCon, she often speaks on issues of diversity, feminism, race, intersectionality & other topics at multiple conventions throughout the year. Her writing about games and games critique appears in Uncanny Magazine, Polygon, Wiscon Chronicles, Vice Gaming, Paste Games, Mic, and other publications.

2 thoughts on “There must not be anything else going on today…why is news of the death of Oprah’s dog even news?”

  1. Its an Associated Press Article, its not a JOKE as you put it.

    Thanks anyway on commenting on an old article.

  2. LMAO that’s a JOKE
    As if someone took the time to write that

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