Running over Oprah...

Barbara Ehrenreich: Breast cancer diagnosis leads to an expose of positive thinking and the pink ribbon cult - chicagotribune.com: "n a phone interview, edited and condensed here, Ehrenreich talked about her latest book, High 'Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America' (Metropolitan Books,$23)."

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"Q: You say you decided to look into the cult of happy out of a combo of anger and curiosity. Did you uncover any surprises in your research?

A: How widespread the ideology of positive thinking is in America. There's almost no problem for which positive thinking has not been proposed as a solution.

Q: You hang some of the blame on Oprah?

A: She's not the only one, let me put it that way. Her show has promoted one kind of guru after another or motivator, or something. But you could also put some of the blame on Larry King and Ellen DeGeneres and others that I'm not aware of."