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    Commentary: There are three activities I won't let my daughters try. One is beauty pageants

    by Mark Oppenheimer, Los Angeles Times Jan 05, 2018 3 minutes

    Have you heard? Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News anchor who took down her boss, sexual harasser Roger Ailes, is the new chair of the Miss America pageant, whose crown she won in 1989. She hopes to "move this iconic program forward," she wrote on Twitter, after the fallout from the revelation last month that pageant executives demeaned former winners in email.

    If you went on a news diet over the holiday, and missed this major story about a minor institution, consider yourself lucky. It's vile.

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