America's Next Top Model: Episode 7

i dun realli care bout anyting.. JAYLA is fricken HOT.. dats pretty much all i have to say.. even wen shes mad she looks so HOT. i saw da episode last night wen she said" u stupid bitch" damn i have never seen any1 look so hot while sayin dat. so yea all i have to say is that JAYLA is fricken hot.hot.hot.hot.hot.hot.hot.hot.hot.HOT.

Wow, J, it's a blog -- about "just another" idiotic reality TV show -- get over it!

Post your spoilers then. I'll read another website. Simple enough.

Well golly. It's good to see that people can still take creative criticism, and use it to their advantage to better themselves both professionally and creatively. If your attitude continues to be one of "This is how I write, screw you people who contribute to our revenue", then maybe TVSquad.com can make the writers' names more prominent in the leads, thereby making it easier for us to skip certain bloggers' posts.

Hmmmm, I've thought about this spoiler thing and while I understand both arguments...I'm gonna have to stick to my guns and just keep on post-show spoiling. I still don't consider 15 hours after the air-time a spoiler though. I say that once the show has aired, it is the responsibility of the reader, not the blogger, to shield your eyes from such things. Plus, I don't write my recaps to be strictly recaps of the show from beginning to end. I put whatever i find most interesting on the top of the post...sorta like I'm gossiping to my girlfriends about the show the next day, which is also an inverted pyramid. I like to give my opinion about the show and I love it when people tell me what they thought of last night's episode too. Plus, I don't always put the elimination at the beginning...I only do it when it's the most interesting thing. See: http://www.tvsquad.com/2005/10/12/not-done-americas-next-top-model-episode-5/ I too have DVR and so I don't watch a lot of shows until 2 or three days after they have aired. And it's my job to look at entertainment news websites every day, but I make a point to squint my eyes whenever I see things like "The Donald fired BLANK." Sometimes I see a "spoiler" and I just say "oh well, my fault for not watching it yet." I still find the show entertaining to watch because, quite frankly, I think the elimination is sometimes the most lackluster part of a show. But lastly, our blogs are unfiltered and uncensored which means we don't have policies on such things, which is why this is such a rad place to work. Our bloggers are allowed to do "what they think is best," which is great because it creates variety. If you don't like me as a blogger then maybe one of our other bloggers can tickle your fancy. I would kill myself if my boss made us all write things in the same way and I think the readers would hate it too. And J, trust me...all the bloggers get crap from the readers from time to time. It's just part of the job. You can't make everybody happy all the time and why would you ever freaking want to.

Gotta agree with Rico and itsy - no spoilers on the main page. Lots of people have tivo's and watch this stuff days later. Seriously, is there a feedback system for the quality of writers on these blogs? You're the only one I ever see getting berated by your readers.

It's NOT unreasonable for readers to ask that spoilers be kept off the main page...even for a stupid show that aired hours before the entry was posted. Other contributers on the site do it. So why be defensive about what seems to be a loose policy here? And as you say, it's just a blog so there's no need to stick to the journalism credo of the "inverted pyramid."

re: Lacy Look, I likes my TV watching and all, but fact of the matter is I just bought a house, and I'm up to my eyeballs in repairs and maintenance, as well as the regular crap at work. In other words, I have a life, just like everybody else. I know people who Tivo everything during the week, then catch up on the weekends. And yes, it is a spoiler if you mention how the episode ends. I know you're not blurting out about what the "security system" in Lost is, or saying something about how Jerry, George, Elaine & Kramer get convicted and go to jail, but you are telling me who loses in this episode. In a competitive reality show, half the pleasure a viewer gets out of each installment is seeing who gets to go home, and you know that. Be it a slow, steady process, or a surprise elimination, knowing who gets kicked off before I get to watch the preceding 40 minutes just totally sucks the wind out of my sails. All I'm saying is that you have readers who would like the main page to be untainted. Hell, you have a special entry called "Spoilers Anonymous" for people who WANT to know how a show ends before it's aired to go and read to their heart's content. But they're not on the main page.

Is it just me, or does anyone else think having Miss J on the panel just doesn't work. (S)he never has anything constructive to say -- just snide one-liners that may or may not make any sense. Sure, the housewife observation hit the mark, but "those eyes go through me like prunes"? Eeew. What does that even mean? Miss J needs to retire the giant corsage and go back to runway coaching for these girls.

Ok, Kim managed to look like a girl this week. She still can't walk and she has no presence as a model. Sorry to say that even with a corset that pushes all the goods to the top, she still couldn't manage to create any cleavage. I thought Kyle would make it to the final three with Jayla and Lisa. Loved the dig Nigel put in about Lisa looking old. (Must be the booze.) She is definitely the one I love to hate. As for post #1 - I start looking for the ANTM post the next morning to get someone else's opinion on the show. I thought I heard somewhere that ANTM is top rated, but I can't find anyone else at work or friends that watch it (or admit to it, anyway.)