This is a real opinion piece in a Toronto newspaper today.

https:// www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2018/05/13/oprah-should-trump-donald-for-the-nobel-peace-prize.html

Here is the rationale:

<While some may dismiss her career in entertainment as trivial, one cannot dismiss the powerful global impact created by the forum she created comprised of 4,561 television episodes for women to share their most intimate stories while promoting growth and healing.

<Gloria Steinem noted that Oprah’s “ … daily presence on every continent and in 150 countries for a quarter century […] became a real and rare example of a spontaneous democracy in which people from every walk of life were invited to talk honestly and were listened to with empathy and respect.”

<Aside from her impressive personal philanthropy, she’s devoted much of her career to helping people find their own truth and stand in it while seeking to be their best selves. Among her impacts on the world, this, I believe stands as her most powerful.

<Well into her retirement, she continues to investigate and share truth, even when it is not what we want to see. Her most recent 60 Minutes special on the legacy of American public lynching, while jarring in it’s visual representation of Black death, was necessary to confronting its impacts.