PBSKids hired a spammer named Kerri Roberts at Boldmouth.com, a viral marketing company, to oh-so-innocently comment on the blogs of parents and families and casually add that she can get us free Maya and Miguel stuff and proceeded to advertise for Maya and Miguel events and DVDs. [edit to say that it looks like she is hired by Scholastic books, not PBS directly].

I complained to PBS and was promised that the rep would “look into the matter further”.

Once I provided the information, PBSKids stopped answering my emails. It’s been five weeks since the contact at PBS asked me for the content that was posted on this blog and promised to look into the matter. I’ve heard nothing. I’ve sent two more follow-up emails asking for information. No response.

I think perhaps Hannah at PBS E-Help started poking around into the seedy world of blog-spamming and found out more than she bargained for. Maybe her shadowy cigarette-smoking, fedora-wearing bosses hired someone in a parking garage at dusk to have her removed from the picture because she knew too much.

Hannah, if you’re out there somewhere, don’t worry! I’m sure help is on the way. We’ll get through this thing, we just have to stick together, remain calm, and let B.A. build an incredibly complex defense mechanism from the junk piled in my basement. We’ll hold off Kerri’s goons for a while, Face-man will punch a few bad guys into piles of oil-drums and we’ll all stand in the setting sun with the wind in our hair watching the van ride off into the distance.

Then we’ll go watch TV. Unless Maya and Miguel is on.

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