Miley Cyrus won the Global Action Youth Leadership Award, this is a new thing so she was the first to win it. It’s basically an award for a young person who inspires other young people to do good in the world. That’s how I interpret it anyway. Miley won it for her charity involvement with the Youth Service America program Get Ur Good On which was created to inspire young people to do good in their own neighborhoods.

Sounds like that makes sense when you get down to it, besides it’s not even the only charity that Miley supports. She’s worked with Youth Service America before, like that whole 16th birthday thing at Disneyland which was to their benefit. Then there’s her involvement in Blessings in a Backpack in Kentucky and of course we shouldn’t forget her foundation together with her dad named after her grandfather. She also did something with the organization To Write Love On Her Arms. Those are the things she does publicly, no idea if she supports more organizations that people simply don’t know about. I would say her getting an award like that makes sense.

So what does the media do? They question whether she is the right person to receive that award. Why? Because of her “wild” behavior and being a bad role model. Of course all scandals are being dragged up again. From the most recent one, the bong; to the oldest ones like the Vanity Fair pictures. That her dad Billy Ray did an interview with GQ didn’t help, especially seeing all the media fail to notice that things have changed since that interview was given. Read the rest of this entry »