Today’s media has become inundated with biased reporting, crackpot journalism, and an obsession with consumerism. This perfect storm of neo-conservative elitism is cataclysmic for the majority of Americans for two reasons: first, the American media is a who’s who of Republican pundits paid enormous amounts of cash to tell borderline truths and questionable facts to the people of the United States. What makes matters worse is that there are no significant voices firing back. The more left of center stations (CNN, NBC) are stagnant in their neutrality, leaving an American public left to sift through the outright lies of Rupert Murdoch.

Although I admit CNN is a more reliable news source than FOX News, it has descended into sensationalizing nearly every economic issue that affects Joe American. They leave the consumer terrified that the cost of gas will balloon to six dollars a gallon, but after establishing this fear, they offer ways of alleviating this burden. How do they do this? They tell you to buy a smaller car, they tell you to go electric, they tell you to buy a bike, they tell you to consume, consume, consume. I watch CNN a lot, the number of times they have talked about the merits of buying more fuel efficient cars instead of car-pooling, walking, or driving less is alarming.

Then there is Perez Hilton, an individual who has created an empire by documenting the flaws of celebrities. He has taken what was an already celebrity obsessed, materialistic society, and has covered it in rhetoric that resembles the texture of ejaculatory fluid. In a world where people are rioting over the cost of food, killing each other over fossil fuels, and preaching intolerance, Perez Hilton writes deliriously trivial articles about where Tom Cruise and baby Suri were last weekend. He gets four million hits a day, more than top news outlets in the United States. It appears that people care more about the status of Amy Winehouse’s crack addiction than the food riots in Haiti, and that is horrifying.

I have devised a proposal: we ban perezhilton.com from the internet. It seems like an amazingly difficult task, but as a collective unit we can at least try. Below this post is a petition directed towards the Canadian government. It is an appeal for our lawmakers to stand up for good journalism and conscious awareness of issues that affect our world. Those not from Canada, as a sign of solidarity, feel free to sign. Join with me, destroy ignorance, destroy Perez Hilton.

Link to Petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ban-perezhiltoncom-in-canada