Oprah Winfrey is getting chewed out by her hometown newspaper, The Chicago Tribune, whose editorial board has chastised the former talkshow queen over the $1 million her production company reportedly received from the Kamala Harris campaign to produce the candidate’s celebrity-packed, livestreamed conversation in September.
In an op-ed published Thursday, the Chicago Tribune‘s editorial board took Oprah Winfrey to task not just for allowing her company to accept the $1 million payment, but for agreeing to host the event in the first place, arguing that Kamala Harris would have been better served had she sat down with a journalist, not a celebrity.
The newspaper also called out Oprah Winfrey for publicly denying that she personally received the $1 million, when it was her Harpo Productions that did. The newspaper appeared to be suggesting that Oprah was trying to skate on…
