Sigh... Tyra, Tyra, Tyra.

Oh, this news saddens me. Reality TV is just dunzo anyway, but now a show is in the works that touches too close to actual life for me. Does the name Ken Mok sound familiar? Probably not, but it rang a really small little bell in the back of my mind. He is the executive producer of America's Next Top Model, and he's teaming up with Tyra Banks to create a new reality TV show about the fashion industry.
Ugh, this is where it gets me. The show is a competition for a job as an assistant editor at Elle. Contestants ages 18-28 (because after 28 you're obviously not pretty enough for TV?) will partake in various challenges that show their capabilities in the fashion assistant world. Said Ken Mok: "It is a competition show about aspiring assistants looking to become assistant editors at a fashion magazine. At the same time they're trying to prove themselves as aspiring fashionistas, that they have a sense of style and savvyness, all the things to make it in the fashion world."
I know that's not really a complete sentence, or close to an excuse for one, but I can react to it anyway: WHAT?! Is he really saying that a sense of style and savvyness are all it takes to make it in the fashion world? I really doubt that. I really doubt that you won't need: an extremely hard-working attitute, an ability to get along with everyone you meet, about the strongest sense of self anyone could attain, a vast (and I mean VAST) knowledge of everything fashion-related, crazy typing skills, psychological substance, patience, and undying dedication.
Oh goodness, this just makes me so mad. Do they have to make a reality TV show about every profession out there? Because honestly, let's just leave this ONE alone. It makes me so infuriated because I know they're going to take a very unrewarding profession and glam it up. They're also going to create these stupid made-for-TV challenges that have nothing to do with assistant editing, and "extreme" them up, and then edit out anything smart or witty, and leave in all the drunk bitching!
Honestly, the only reality TV show that does everything right is Project Runway. I think that show takes the fashion industry and shows its innards in a raw and mature way. It glorifies nothing about fashion and focuses instead on the balance of popularity, quality, and personality, and how difficult it is to create something within your personal design aesthetic, and also that of your client, and that of the masses, of the judges, or the magazines you hope will profile you (and there's also this good bit about run-on sentences). Project Runway treats its contestants as professional adults and doesn't seem to be made simply with good TV in mind.
Being an editor or an assistant editor at a magazine is the one profession that I've always wanted to have. I have wanted it since before reading "The Devil Wears Prada" (and was equally mad when, after that movie came out, people started popping up all over the place talking about wanting to work at a magazine) and I will want it forever. That job combines the things I am good at, it puts me in the fashion industry but doesn't force me to do anything creative, and it lets me write. But now, it will look like I only became interested after watching a CW show. Sick.
Okay, I saved the funniest part for last, as a reward for those of you who stuck around through all my bitching. These are questions from the application itself, which I found online:

What character in the move The Devil Wears Prada do you most relate to and why?

What have you done to prepare yourself for a future as a fashionista/o?

What celebrity to you hate? Why?

What do you think is the hardest part of being an assistant?

How do you act when you get drunk?

When was the last time you hit, punched, kicked, or threw something in anger? Please provide details.

Do you have a temper?

What would irritate you about living with nine to eleven other people?

Describe your relationship with your mother: