What did Oprah know and when did she know it?
This story, in today's New York Times, makes clear that staff members at The Oprah Winfrey Show had been made aware of problems with James Frey's "memoir," A Million Little Pieces, long before The Smoking Gun's expose.
The key paragraph in the story is this one:
After receiving the information from Debra Jay, a Michigan addiction counselor who herself has been a frequent guest on Ms. Winfrey's program, a senior producer for the "The Oprah Winfrey Show" conducted an extensive interview with Ms. Jay. It is not known if Ms. Winfrey was apprised of the concerns, but she made no mention of the potential discrepancies in her many on-the-air comments about "A Million Little Pieces," including when she called the book "all completely true" on her program and told Mr. Frey, "I don't doubt you."
So, will Jay (the exceedingly rational woman with horn-rimmed glasses who frequently weighs in on addiction issues) ever be invited back on the show?
