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Miss Teen USA is Not News

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 at 10:17 pm by Jami

No doubt you’ve seen this by now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

First of all, what kind of dumb fuck question is that? How the fuck should she know why her peers can’t read maps? How is that knowledge going to help her be vacuous and useless as a figure head of superficial teen beauty? Do we really give a shit if Miss Teen USA knows why her fellow students are dumb fucks? Hell, I was confused when I heard the question.

Second of all, why is this clip considered international news? I was watching CNN’s international news hour and all of a sudden, there’s Lauren Caitlin Upton trying to figure out why they’re asking her such a dumb fuck of a question. How is this news worthy? This week alone Alberto Gonzales quits, Senator John Warner, A LEADING FUCKING REPUBLICAN IN THE SENATE, calls for troop withdrawal, Greece is on fire, the Sunnis are boycotting the Iraqi government, South Korean aid workers are held prisoner by the Taliban in Afghanistan. You’re telling me that with all this shit going on the best you can do is make fun a girl who doesn’t understand a stupid question?

This is not news worthy. Miss South Carolina, however cute she may be while sputtering “such as,” is not news worthy. Blog worthy? Certainly. Tabloid worthy? Why not. International news placement on CNN? WHAT THE FLYING FUCK!

In all seriousness, televised news is more like new entertainment these days. News programs regularly brag about their ratings and pat themselves on the back for breaking the latest headlines. Virtually gone are the days of true investigative reporting and objective stories. Now, every news story comes with an opinion. Hell, even newspapers endorse candidates, a practice that I find rather appalling. I’m looking for an unbiased eye or at least some in depth investigations, not quick little sound bites off of wire feeds. Guess it’s nothing but CSPAN for me from now on.

8 Responses to “Miss Teen USA is Not News”

CharmCityShinobi
Posted: Aug 29th, 2007 at 2:14 am

Amen. This reminds me of when Paris HIlton was going to jail. I can’t remember the anchor’s name right now, but that was supposed to be the lead off story on MSNBC and the female anchor absolutely refused to read the story, cause it wasn’t and still isn’t news.

And Americans wonder why some countries hate us.

torso_boy
Posted: Aug 29th, 2007 at 3:05 am

“I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because-a some-a people out there in our nation don’t have maps and-a I believe that our education, like such as [in?] South Africa and-a the Iraq, everywhere, like such as, and I believe that they should-a… our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S… er should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future… for us.”

I’m not so much confused by the question as I am by her answer. In a question asking about Americans, she responds by loosely gathering words into some cryptic amassing of foul, butchered valley-English about South Africa, “the Iraq,” and “the Asian countries.” I’m not going to dignify anything about this sack of wasted potential by analyzing her response, but her choice of example countries puzzles me. Save for the obvious question of why she’s talking about OTHER counties, when the FUCK has Iraq ever been referred to as “the Iraq?” It’s not that she says it once in a mere happenstance of unpracticed responses - the dumb fuck says “the Iraq” twice! That’s more than once! A whole fucking TWO times! “The Asian countries” also bothers me to a degree that I can’t help but analyze because it’s so unintentionally subtle that there is no possible way for her to understand what she’s even saying.

But I’ll give her one thing. She was smart enough to blurt out the magic word - Iraq - which probably got her applause by default. I say this because, though the girls in these things are bad enough, the people that run and judge them are worse. “Oh look, she said Iraq - she keeps up with the news!”

Oh my. T_T

Onomah
Posted: Aug 29th, 2007 at 5:52 am

Wow one fifth of americans can’t find america on the map? News to me. I mean, holy shit, that’s twenty percent of a country. Really,I should stop being surprised byt things like that…
That is one stupid question to ask, Miss teen U.S.A. Why are two tenths of americans dumb as hell?
How can you give a reasonable answer to that without sounding anti-american?

Also this may be the second to third stupidest thing i’ve ever seen on the news.

Kindless
Posted: Aug 29th, 2007 at 11:21 am

I love how she didn’t answer the question. I hope she lost.

A_martian
Posted: Aug 29th, 2007 at 5:55 pm

AHHHH Your reason is distracting us from the late breaking celeb news!

*must… switch…. to .. youtube”

BAMikeyD
Posted: Aug 29th, 2007 at 6:03 pm

Yeah good luck finding ANY objective views even on your beloved CSPAN. And to Kindless, I think she came in 4th.

Deadeye
Posted: Aug 29th, 2007 at 8:41 pm

You’re an idiot. I mean THEY are definatelly idiots, but so are you. That is news worthy because hell it was entertaining to watch. The news is entertainment. You found it interesting enough to write in this shitty blog that a friend posted to my awesome brain cells killing myspace page, I found it interesting enough to watch. We are America, we demand to be entertained by how stupid we and all those around us are.

Also, about news being more about entertainment than investigative reporting, unless this was aimed at the five year olds who read your page we “grown ups” all knew this years ago. You’re a few years too late. We’ve been there for Britney and O.J. and everything in between, so please if you’re just figuring this out right now quickly, quickly go take your mental retardation medicine before you hurt yourself or those around you. Or better yet! Don’t take it, get a video camera record yourself doing wacky things like hitting yourself and yelling “burrito” and hopefully, HOPEFULLY we’ll catch it later on today on cnn (and local news since I don’t have cable *buh*.)