WAG - When looks kill.
I was thinking I wasn’t going to have anything to post about. I feel a bit run down, nothing big happened today, and I went through several news sites looking for something to pique my interest.
I was just about ready to give up when a teaser line at CNN.com caught my eye. The link to the article read ”Murder case cancels beauty pageant”.
Apparently, the annual Miss Savannah competition is being called off due to all the bad press and scrutiny associated with the pageant after the reigning Miss Savannah was charged with murdering her boyfriend.
Don’t you hate it when that happens?
These girls had their outfits, routines, cheerful pre-planned interview answers, and in some cases, “cosmetic” surgery all lined up, and it’s all for naught after a beauty queen went after some former football jock who was allegedly judging another “contestant.”
I also find it interesting that the lady who was arrested wasn’t even the original Miss Savannah. The original went on to win the title of Miss Georgia, leaving the runner up to take up the mantle… and unfortunately also her second amendment rights.
Okay, more seriously…
Reading an initial account of the shooting, I thought it was interesting how people reacted to and reported the case. Some sites had tongue in cheek reports while others were more straightforward (as in less cheeky) accounts of the crime.
There was one major difference, however. The Pageant News Bureau (which I didn’t even know existed) apparently tried to bury the story. Not only did they not report that Redmond had been arrested, but when it finally came time to announce that the pageant was canceled, all they ran was a one-sentence brief stuck between the results of Miss Texas Teen America and Miss Trinidad and Tobago 2004.
In reporting the update, since officials have been debating whether or not the show should go on for over a month, most people repeated the standard AP report (like the CNN story).
It’s a shame. There’s more to this story than an easy “ta-boom-ching!” One could get past the “an in a bizarre note” lead-in and come up with a much more interesting story. After graduating summa cum laude with a double major in English and pre-medicine, this girl’s life has spun out of control. I didn’t see any articles concerned about that.
In the official rationale for canceling the contest, a spokesman for the pageant’s board of directors said, "This environment is no place for a local contestant to adequately prepare for the Miss Georgia Pageant."
It may be too late to stop one girl from inadvertently turning herself into a punch line, but I give kudos to the pageant organizers who took the difficult steps to save other girls from suffering the same fate.
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