After some faulty journalism took place by the New York Times in which Whoopi Goldberg was left out of a list of African-American winners at the Oscars, she lashed out at the reporters who wrote the article and explained why she was so upset.
Ranting against the writers Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott on her show “The View”, she said, “I am embarrassed to tell you, it hurt me terribly. When you win an Academy Award, that’s part of what you’ve done, your legacy. I will always be ‘Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg…’. Not only am I an Academy Award winner, I have made over 50 films; I have been nominated twice—once for The Color Purple, once for Ghost—and I won for Ghost. I am told that I am one of the 12 (artists in history) of what they call the EGOT (stars who own an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award).”
She continued on, “It’s very hard not to take it personally, but this is sloppy journalism because this is not a hidden thing. Everybody kinda knows…You’re sloppy in your work, you’re supposed to be better than this, this is the New York Times.”
