Isn't MTV concerned about brand dilution by building a reality show about people who have a work-ethic and ambitions beyond a place on the roster of RW/RR Challenge Gauntlet LVIII and/or the front page of The Smoking Gun?

This girl has gone so far over the edge of geek, she has come right back around to cool.
Not to be all Angela Chase, but she is fearless, like, she is without fear.

Amanda needs to be a Jezebelle asap.

Ahh, Mondays. Gossip Girl,House, The Hills and The Paper.

I wonder if I look through the "Why Yes, I Do Frequently Burst Into Song" group on facebook, I could find her profile. That and the " And WHY Can't My Life Be A Musical?" group.

@MadelineBassett:This can only lead to good things. I'm trying to think if there was a MTV reality show about Drama Club? Could you imagine the shit that would go down? The callbacks, the tears, the cast parties, the angry sound techs?
Hell, MTV, make a debate team show next!

Is it me or does she kinda of sort of look like Whitney in this?

She's so smart that she's beyond High School. Because, she's so very conscious of the camera, and she puts on adorable little look-at-me-acting-natural-talking-to-myself performances, yet she doesn't get angry when the others trash her just because they're jealous. She's...a genius. She manages to cultivate a quirky and nerdy image yet remain "unaware" of others' pereceptions of her, therefore not indulging in the drama which makes them more jealous. Sigh, if only I had known her in H.S.

@Jessi Ramsey: word! I know its the "axis of vapid", but Monday night is my second favorite night of TV.
I'm getting really into the paper! Amanda has more attitude and spunk in her pinkie finger than LC does in her entire body. If MTV is going to continue to produce reality TV shows, I hope they consider doing more shows like this one

@Jessi Ramsey: I would SO watch a debate team show--that shit is BRUTAL. The way you'd give the old up-and-down to the size of opposing teams' evidence tubs in the way LC might look at a knock-off handbag.

I had a friend, and he and I cooked up a whole documentary centered around debate Spellbound-style. It would be riveting, I tell you, RIVETING. How can it not be when everything ends in nuclear war?

I love this show. It just adds to the awesomeness that Monday night tv has become. and I think i would have been slightly intimidated by Amanda in high school, but now that I'm finished, I can safely say she is awesome and I want to be her friend. I also think Giana is surprisingly mature when confronting people for a high schooler.

@MadelineBassett: Have you seen Thumbsucker?

Amanda is a true feminist heroine. When I have a daughter I will be playing The Paper on a loop in her room till she hits puberty.

@freakalina: I couldn't have said it better.

Waitwaitwait...so you're telling me there's hope for the future, and it's on an MTV reality show?

Colour my jaw dropped.

Have to say that I was genuinely impressed by how...professional she is, and how she's determined to build a solid team despite opposition. MTV would be smart in promoting more girls like this as their stars!

Although, the douchiness of her colleagues/friends is just devestating--my heart breaks for her whenever I see her crush say one thing to her, and quite the other thing to his friends.

1. i love rich because he looks like a BF i once had about a million years ago

2. i hope Amanda has lots of gay BFFs around her. (I would so be there)

3. i wrote for my HS newspaper as well. mostly "op-eds" making fun of the librarians and the school nurse (who was a total bitch).

@bellethellama: She is determined to unite the team, but at the same time, the poor girl is clueless. She may be beyond her years in terms of ambition (and her peers may be immature and nasty) but I don't understand how she can be absolutely successful in terms of smarts and social savvy if she can't even conquer the teenage demographic while she's part of it. It's not that hard to make an effort to be less abrasive, and it drives me nuts that she's willing to resign herself to social cluelessness when she could at least gain more respect with her position of power--maybe she should start watching Gossip Girl.

Monday TV is great.

not to brag or anything, but... i'm totally facebook friends with her.

I work for my paper in college (a daily, and it's grueling, so the little weekly deadlines are so cute and endearing), and, I hate to say, it's like this but even worse in college. There's ALWAYS some crazy-ass drama come editor-in-chief-pickin' time. Plus copious amounts of alcohol and interdesk sexcapades.

Also, these kids are the kinds of kids who attach like, 17 entire papers to their applications (because they wrote half of what's in there), which just annoys everyone since everyone who applies gets on anyhow. Oh well.

Make her an Honorary Jezebel! Seriously! How can you get this girl on the site?

Oh I am SO a Lorber Lover. This girl is so cool beyond her years. She is going to rule the world.

@smopenna:

Yeah, totally! She should be, like, the "youff" columnist.

I'll take a stab at a simpler explanation for the phenomenon that is Amanda Lorber. She was a drama kid previous to her stint on the paper (I say this only because of her singing outburst in one of the episodes).

@goodcheapfun: I wrote this before looking at her YouTube page). I win

Proof that there lives a true gay man in every woman.

Amanda is a star.

Heh, her Youtube member name is "Superfr3ak."

oh amanda. sometimes, i watch the paper and my heart breaks for you. please move on to someone better than alex-- you deserve way more than that.

I've never watched this show, but this girl has me laughing very hard. She has no shame. That is a good thing.

I hope my kids grow up like this, if I ever have them.

Amanda knows what she wants and is not ashamed to strive for it. I wish I was like that in high school.

I want to like her, but a silly shallow part of me just has to hate a girl who got a nose job in high school.

Am I missing something? Yes, I see the powergirl fabulosity factor that you are pointing out, and while I think she is a fantastic character to watch from afar, she's incredibly selfish, narcissistic, and really bad at team work (despite her phony efforts that only achieved the appearance of being team-oriented...when push came to shove in crunch time, girl had nada to offer -- she just wanted to get her piece done and see her name printed next to the Editor-in-Chief slot). I'm totally obsessed with this show, and I love her character, but until I see some acts of true teamwork and dedication to the paper, instead of to herself, I would not call her a role model. Stepping on people's toes and pissing them off is not the way to lead.

Being female does not excuse being an asshole.

Can we please discuss Adam now?