The Amanda Show

After really thinking about how times have changed, I realize that what my nieces are growing up watching is in so many ways different than what I grew up watching. In a way it kind of worries me. The comic relief I had when watching The Amanda Show usually never had to do with boys or drama. Amanda was funny because she did stupid skits. It was the small things that made us laugh in the 90s. Hannah Montana and other shows of that sort may not show that they are trying to target young girls into social media and growing up too fast, but when you look closer the subliminal messages are never ending. Also, what kind of role model is Miley Cyrus for girls that watch her show? My niece will be wearing a Hannah Montana shirt and then go on the Internet and see her drinking and partying at the bars. Just the other day my niece asked me if I had seen Hannah Montana's hair now that she cut it all off. She said "It's ugly and I can't believe she did that. Is boy's hair ok for girls?" What she sees from her so called "role models" is something that she wonders about everyday. Growing up the media never played a role in my life and all I saw from Amanda or Clarissa was from their show. Why does the media have to get involved in young people's life and in children's television shows?