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Date Posted: 21:56:04 06/24/24 Mon
Author: "What do you think of a 71-year-old competing for Miss TX?
Subject: People will always continually confuse the two programs. My brother texted to me yesterday,
In reply to: Fan 's message, "Miss Wisconsin vs Miss Wisconsin-USA" on 20:52:30 06/24/24 Mon

>I don't think it gives pageants a good impression if we potentially could get a 71-year-old Miss America."
And the reason people get the two programs confused is because they don't care. And they're cursed with relatives that have an interest in either one or both of the programs, who are more than willing to correct them when they mess up with their statements.




>Is it the responsibility for the contestant being
>interviewed in the media (television, radio, and/or
>newspaper) or the director who likely scheduled or at
>least allowed for a press interview with a Miss
>Wisconsin contestant to inform or correct reporters
>when they say Miss Wisconsin-USA or Miss USA instead
>of Miss Wisconsin or Miss America?
>
>First we got this Madison tv station which had Miss
>Madison and Miss Madison's Teen on for an on-air live
>interview. If you look, they say on the tv screen:
>
>A new Miss Wisconsin will be crowned next week, and
>two Miss Madison winners speak about competing for
>Miss Wisconsin USA.
>http://www.channel3000.com/video/miss-madison-and-miss-
>madison-teen-set-to-compete-for-title-of-miss-wisconsin
>/video_6121972e-a941-5c41-8189-1f124aa0979f.html
>
>Both Halle and Natalie were in Oshkosh last week, not
>in Verona where the 2024 Miss Wisconsin-USA contest
>was held.
>No one corrected the tv folks/hosts on saying Miss
>Wisconsin USA, and it is still on the website video
>now almost two weeks later where they could make a
>belated correction.
>
>Then we got this surprising news, Mandi Genord is
>going to Miss USA in August, well she might, but she
>won't be representing Wisconsin the competition no
>matter what this Janesville Gazette reporter says here
>in this Monday, June 24 article:
>
>"Genord now goes on to compete in the 73rd annual Miss
>USA pageant in Los Angeles on Sunday, Aug. 4. If
>Genord were to be crowned Miss USA, Smith would step
>up to become Miss Wisconsin."
>
>http://www.gazettextra.com/news/local/janesvilles-cathe
>rine-smith-named-miss-wisconsin-first-runner-up/article
>_91e4712a-3266-11ef-865a-93985dae8550.html
>
>As Donald Trump would say, "Fake news", or fake
>pageant news. But whatever one wishes to call it, it
>was incorrect, and Catherine Smith knows better than
>to not correct reporter Katlyn (Katie) Garcia or say
>that Mandi would advance to Miss USA, and this
>reporter to not fact-check before publishing this
>nonsense. Thoughts? Catherine's director is Sha-Nita,
>like she could not provide accurate information or
>correct this reporter when this June 24 became public?

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  • Honestly, what a nutty reporter. Didn't Katie ask Catherine Smith about -- about Miss America vs Miss USA? And do fact-checking?, 20:10:32 06/30/24 Sun
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