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MEDIA BUZZmeter

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4.1 • 582 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This 'Media Buzz Meter' first aired on January 15th, 2026… Howie Kurtz on a federal officer shooting a man in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel, the Trump administration’s decision to halt immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries, and growing concerns over the editorial independence of the U.S. military newspaper Stars and Stripes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.6	It's the Media Buzz Meter with Howard Kurtz.
0:34.6	Oprah is back on the weight-loss drugs.
0:41.5	And I bring this up because I don't think there's anybody in human history
0:44.5	who's up and down battles with diets and exercise
0:50.0	and what's her weight has been more intensively covered
0:53.9	than that of Oprah Winfrey. And here you have
0:56.8	the Daily Mail reporting. I guess this is based on an interview that she did on the Today Show,
1:01.6	that she regained a stone and a half when she stopped taking weight loss medication last year.
1:09.0	Now, I had no idea what how much a stone and a half was. And so I took the
1:14.7	extra step so I could share it with you. 21 pounds. 21 pounds. She's about to turn 72 and has talked
1:24.2	quite openly about her battles with weight. In 2023, she began taking a, what's called the GLP1 drug.
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