Comments on: Cookie Monster was the first bad boy I ever loved http://www.blueblood.net/2006/07/cookie-monster-was-the-first-bad-boy-i-ever-loved/ Counterculture Lifestyle Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:11:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Blue Blood Magazine Gothic Punk Deathrock Fandom News Photos Forum » Cookie Monster is Not Blue Elmo http://www.blueblood.net/2006/07/cookie-monster-was-the-first-bad-boy-i-ever-loved/comment-page-1/#comment-230 Blue Blood Magazine Gothic Punk Deathrock Fandom News Photos Forum » Cookie Monster is Not Blue Elmo Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:35:01 +0000 http://www.blueblood.net/2006/07/cookie-monster-was-the-first-bad-boy-i-ever-loved/#comment-230 [...] In case you all were wondering, yes, I did hear from the Children’s Workshop in-house legal department when I wrote Cookie Monster was the first bad boy I ever loved. Given that I was one of many people who covered Mr. Monster’s surprising conversion to “Cookies Are a Sometimes Food”, I was surprised to get lawyer mail on that one. Then again, I did serious journalistic research for that article and I unearthed and exposed the business partnership that Sesame Street was involved in with Earth’s Best health foods. More and more, I realize that I get the most brutal pushback whenever I actually do serious well-researched hard journalism. And people wonder why it is getting more difficult to find proper even-handed journalistic coverage of anything anywhere. [...] [...] In case you all were wondering, yes, I did hear from the Children’s Workshop in-house legal department when I wrote Cookie Monster was the first bad boy I ever loved. Given that I was one of many people who covered Mr. Monster’s surprising conversion to “Cookies Are a Sometimes Food”, I was surprised to get lawyer mail on that one. Then again, I did serious journalistic research for that article and I unearthed and exposed the business partnership that Sesame Street was involved in with Earth’s Best health foods. More and more, I realize that I get the most brutal pushback whenever I actually do serious well-researched hard journalism. And people wonder why it is getting more difficult to find proper even-handed journalistic coverage of anything anywhere. [...]

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