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Sunday, October 14, 2001

I'm once again seeing a side of the media that disgusts me.

It's bad enough that Peter Jennings at ABC interrupts shows often with 30-minute "Special Reports" that contain nothing as far as actual news... now, thanks to the inept workings of the Canadian media, a Website done for only parody - I'll say it again: PARODY, was pulled from the 'net because the Webmaster had enough harassment.

The site in question was called "Bert is Evil". Said site just played on a joke: that Bert from Sesame Street was actually involved in some of the most heinous actions of the past century.

One photo was an image made a few years ago, of Bert behind Osamu bin Laden. This was after the bombing of a few embassies in Asia. Unfortunately, some scumbags made posters of the image for an anti-America rally in Afghanistan recently. The vultures who used it had no idea who Bert even was.

This led to major media furor, which led to the Canadian press hounding the Webmaster, which in turn led to him saying "Screw it!" and closing the site.

Shame on you, media vultures. Shame. On. You.

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