Is the media poisoning our minds?

Over the weekend I watched quite a bit of TV, and one thing I noticed was the amount of modeling shows that were on. America's next top model and Janice Dickenson's Modeling Agency were the ones that I actually watched. One of the things that caught my attention the most was how freely Janice Dickenson (being part of both shows) talked about how many different body types or problems with someones appearance could prohibit them from getting involved in the fasion industy. On one of the episodes of Janice Dickenson's Modeling Agency, they had a man looking for models with bad skin and out of all of the models in her agency they could only find one that had reasonably bad skin to be a consideration for the shoot. Instead she had to go out on the street and find aspiring models with bad skin and that is the sole reason why they got chosen. I understand why the fashion industy has this outlook, but instead of adressing the problem and helping a potentially great model clear up something as small as acne, they just simply say they arent good enough. This bothered me that this is what is being broadcasted and brain washed into our society, imperfections are being looked at like diseased. No one is perfect and I feel like people who have such strong feelings about how a person should look even though there is no right or wrong on someones appearance is miseducating and poisoning our society, especially our societies youth. This whole idea of body image in the media has been around for a while now, but they always seem to be the same problems and the general public looks away and this adds to the problem. I just thought that this tied into the class topic very well and also I thought that is was something to think about as we move forward in this self discovery part of the class.