March 4, 2009, - 10:09 am
Desperate: Waning “Top Model” Reality Show Uses 9/11 Trutherism Marketing
By Debbie Schlussel
If you have a teen daughter or female relative, you’re probably aware of “America’s Next Top Model,” the “reality show” on the CW network, produced and hosted by narcissist Tyra Banks. The show should really be entitled, “America’s Next Free Live Meat for Tyra’s Bank Account,” since none of these girls ever becomes a top model . . . or even a minor showroom clothes hanger.
The show begins its 12th season tonight, and with ratings waning, they’re trying a new tack. In promos for the show that have been running for weeks, Tyra and friends have been promoting contestant Monique and her 9/11 truther views. The promos show her saying that she believes the U.S. government was behind 9/11, so that we could go to war.
Been there, heard that. Just because the new face repeating this old tripe isn’t as ugly as Rosie O’Donnell doesn’t make it any more valid. If Tyra Banks had any decency (and we all know she does not), she’d tell producers she doesn’t want a 9/11 truther on her show, and that would have been the end.
But this desperate TV show, the ratings of which are on the decline, needs something to get “us” (not me or you, but them) interested again. Not that I watch this vapid show–it’s a tad out of my demo, not to mention stupid and a waste of time–but they have no problem polluting your daughters with this dumb conspiracy theory with no basis, wrapped in the candy coating of a wannabe model wearing haute couture. They’re milking it as much as possible.
Beware.
I’ve already noted on this site about how Tyra’s idea of “Black history” was a 10th anniversary repeat of her pose in a bikini in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. But, using false conspiracy theories about 9/11 to market her non-Top Model Show–it’s a new low.
That’s one show about to jump the shark. Running conspiracist nonsense is enough to make it happen. No one will miss it when it does go off the air.
NormanF on March 4, 2009 at 2:59 pm