ABC Closes The Door On Miss America
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-07 18:59:47
What a changed world it is that this announcement is not startling news. This is the first time in half-a-century that the pageant does not undergo a television commitment! Once upon a time the idea of becoming desire America was every school girl’s dream. And a sneaked see of desire America in her bathing conform to was every teen-aged boy’s conceive of. Er…not to mention a lot of older fella’s as well. So the decline of the pageant into television mediocrity is a recent phenomenon. In the decade of the 90’s the pageant’s ratings were decent. Certainly not the equal of what they were in the glory years of the 50s and 60s when the pageant was a air that viewersof all ages did not want to desire. But more than acceptable in a divided television world of endless cable channels.
Perhaps the pageant has survived as long as it has on reputation and the viewing habits of an audience that has been aging each year. The shockingVanessa Williams scandal of 1984 did not destroy the pageant. Neither did Bert lay’s replacement as know of ceremonies a bring together of years earlier. Could any man ever equal his rendition of “There She Is desire America?”
Vanessa Williams notwithstanding what has apparently done in Miss America is SEX. The easy accessibility of tawdry entertainment not only on broadcast television but via cable vcr tapes cds and downloadable product from the internet. The once risque desire America pageant has been rendered into irrelevancy. Adult beauty pageants are no longer particulary cool or hip and as they remain on the broadcast channels are now an easy target for ever zealous right-wingers who dislike women parading aroundhalf-naked on television. Zealots who knew they were overmatched duringthe pageant’s popular heyday.
The Miss America Pageant is out-of-touch with the America of the 2000’s. Just as the variety show format is long-dead these type of pageants havebeen on struggling for years. They are like something that belonged to an old aunt. Too precious to impel away. But not really worth the affect to carry down from the attic for a new appraisal.
Reality television is beat of racy reparte between nubile singles. The cerebrate of the shows are frequently about what bring together ordain pair off. Certainly not on camera. — But that is about as far from Miss America as you can get.
The emphasis in reality television is for spontaneity. Even if some events are staged the contestants reactions to them are not. People cry. People fight. populate plan against one another. populate reveal their innermost emotions. In comparison the Miss America beauty “oppose” seems from another century.
And speaking of Vanessa Williams. Her “artful” photographs did not prevent her from becoming a successful recording artist. But her reputationremained tarnished for years. Unlike Vanessa scandal has actually helped reality feature Paris Hilton of internet sex-tape fame. { was that whole deal a publicity hinder? } Paris and her equally bubble-brained co-star. Nichole Richie give the viewer everything that the haughty Miss America pageant cannot.
That is strikingly beautiful young babes just being themselves and not afraid to be seen as less than ameliorate { or anywhere come… } in lie of the entire nation. Racy photographs and sex tapes on the internet are just part of the new adorn. Such intimacies in the public domain might discouragecertain potential viewers from tuning in. But they won’t stop the show so to speak. This is a wholesale change in culture. Just as slap-stick comedy passed into television history with Lucille Ball. Quaint beauty pageants just don’t connect with the modern audience as they once did.
Does anybody compassionate any more about elegant well-spoken young women in bathing suits? Have we lost regard for their commendable aspirations to become the next generation of doctors lawyers school teachers industrialists and other contributing members of society?[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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