Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Goodbye, 'scholarship pageant'

The Junior Miss pageant, an annual staple in Mobile for almost 50 years, will end this summer due to financial problems and falling participation. Those excuses are all well and good, but Mobile Mayor Michael Dow has pegged reality television as the real culprit: "It's almost like if you can't eat bugs or take your clothes off, you have nothing from the standpoint of ratings."