The issue surrounding whether or not to crown Lauren Nelson as Miss America has finally been resolved after many alleged lifestyle changes and moral promises on Nelson's part. In an article posted on the 30th of January by CNN News, Lauren Nelson has said she will begin to live a clean life after being crowned Miss America on Monday in Las Vegas. So no more wild club nights and parties. Chairman of the Miss America organization board even had Nelson along with all other contestants of the pageant to sign a morality clause claiming that the whole idea of the pageant is to produce role models for all young girls. The show, in hopes of gaining more viewers moved to Las Vegas from Atlantic City all the way to MTV Network's CMT cable station. It also adopted what American Idol is famous for which is telephone voting. And though this scandal has left many bad thoughts in the minds of viewers and others, media commentators apparently hope that because of it TV ratings will skyrocket. Bad publicity is good publicity.
My opinion on this is it's ridiculous! Why does America try to be this land of the free, patriotic, role model for girls type country when we all know how dirty things really are. Miss America is not a role model for girls. She's a real life dummy for Barbie! She only models beauty to young girls. Beauty and talent which are two beautiful things but you can't always become successful on those two characteristics alone. On one hand we here in the home of the brave sell videos like Girls Gone Wild, but on the other hand we try to promote good behavior and chastity to young girls. We need to choose. Do we want our young girls to be promiscuous girls as one great singer once said in her song or do we want them to strive for the best and hold on to their goodies?
I do commend the whole idea for Miss America and the reasoning behind it, but it just seems scandalous to me. Here's the link to view this complete artile:http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/30/miss.america.reut/index.html
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I agree with what Ashley said. What are we trying to show that it is a good thing to be Miss America?
Miss America is not a role model for girls. Wasn't back in the day and certainly now. What does that say for America and the way our culture is? I think that it is horrible that they want someone to be Miss America and then go and promote Girls Gone Wild videos on TV. The question is what kind of image does that give to little girls that grow up wanting to be like that. I think that if they had Miss American it should be a role model figure and should have some soft of accomplishment. Everyone needs to make their minds up on what they want to do and which way they want to go.
You have a very strong opinion on this, and I agree. The messages the media sends are hypocritical and contradicting. In a perfect world people would do and say what they preach. However, no one in this world is perfect.
Miss America is being real and showing that we all make mistakes. We deserve a chance to turn our life around and not be judged soley on our past. A role model isn't a saint. It's someone just like us who has maybe made mistakes, but who has done something extroardinary with their life to help others or make for a more peacfeul world and community. A lot of the role models I had as children had done crazy things and they weren't wholesome or the representation of such. What I admired was how they overcame obstacles, not how their life was such a breeze, and they were spoiled, or a "goody-two-shoes". Their hearts were in the right place. I won't judge someone else on mistakes I've made or say that I don't like her because of her past. I may not agree with what she has done or think it's acceptable to show young children, but Miss America is older and more professional. She deserves a little more respect and credibility for facing the immature actions of her past and dealing with them. She is not proud, but she hasn't lost dignity.
The messages the media and society in general send are always mixed messages, but when it comes to representing America, we want to send a positive message. I think we could have found someone with a cleaner and more repetable past who was well suited.
Yes, any publicity is better than none, embarassing as it can be!
I totally agree, soceity today sets role models for younger kids as the young and beautiful. Well when the kids find out what their "role model" is really doing it only promotes bad things. I think we should be strait up with telling younger generations that this kind of thig is what our nation has come to: a popularity contest based on looks, and hopefully younger generations will see that regardless of what people may seem anyone can choose to party and do drugs but it's up to them. A solution? Miss Deadbeat America....find the worst drug attics and make them work to acheieve something...then maybe kids will see that drugs are out there and it takes alot of work to come back from an addiction!!!
<3 Jennifer
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