So this past weekend the 7th season of CMT's Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders: Making the Team came on.  I must admit that this show is definitely one of my guilty pleasures.  My mom, sister and I began watching it during Season 3 and we have pretty much been addicted ever since.  We at first began watching it to kind of laugh at the girls, thinking they would all just be ditzy girls who had nothing going for them but shaking their butts on the sideline and halftime, but it has turned into so much more than that.

I think the reason we have become so attached to the show is very much because of how it is produced.  I would go ahead and guess that many viewers began watching the show originally for the same reason we did, and sometimes when I try to get my friends to watch it with me they laugh and say it's a waste of time. But then they watch one segment and become addicted.  The show very much appeals to young women who understand the struggle to be successful. 

Throughout the episode there are clips of the various young women (some basically young "girls") lives as they enter the process of becoming a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader.  In the particular episode I am talking about, it shows the struggles of one of the girls who got completely uprooted out-of-state and had to immediately find a job in a surrounding suburb of Arlington, Texas where the girls practice.  Cameras in her car show her daily routine as she goes and works a 9-5 job and then rushes off to practice.  This definitely shows a more real side to a young woman just trying to be successful and trying to fulfill her goals all while trying to make ends meet.

The part I found most interesting, and I also believe most other people, is the interview segment.  The stage the girls had currently been going through during this episode is where they also have to go into a panel interview with pretty much all of the top "execs" of the Dallas Cowboys.  They are asked questions anywhere from what their career goals are to who is their favorite football player to who is the Democrate presidential candidate for 2012.  And yes, as expected, the girls sure did have some pretty laughable answers.  But I believe the point of this segment was to let the audience know that the girls they end up choosing are not the unintelligent ones.  It shows the two squad directors immediately getting onto the girls, and telling them to go home right away and study their terms- some were cut immediately if their answer was that bad.

Commentary from the two squad directors explicitly states their goal for what they want their Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders squad to be.  Both are quoted saying outright that they want their girls to always be professional, and that their biggest purpose is to be a team of good female ambassadors for the Cowboys rather than a group of girls just dancing at halftime.  I find that so interesting that they make such efforts to show the directors making this point so many times.  Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders Making the Team is more than just mere entertainment- it definitely has a purpose in getting the audience to realize what the official squad consists of in the end and to rebel against any pre-existing stereotypes.

So I have decided to make my first ever blog on the topic of what Americans find to be news anymore.  There are so many news channels to follow, and I find it interesting that the show entitled "World News" has specials on celebrities and matters so trivial compared to what I believe would be more important in today's world.  I am interested to research this more, and especially see what others have to say about the topic- because, after all, every individual has a different idea of what is important!