Great Moments in Journalism: Gay Penguin May No Longer Be Gay

by Steve Krakauer | 2:28 pm, July 17th, 2009

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cnn_7-17 Harry and Pepper were a happy gay couple living in San Francisco. Then suddenly, along came Linda, and sent the whole neighborhood into a frenzy. And they’re all penguins.

This is not a joke. In fact, this is a real story on CNN.com!

Jeff Bush of KRON-TV, this is your life: “It was clear that Harry and Pepper had broken up, when Harry moved out of the burrow he shared with Pepper, and moved in next door with Linda.”

Enjoy the jaw-droppingly-detailed video below (via BuzzFeed):

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CNN Headline T-shirt: Gay Penquins Split | The US Spreadshirt Blog says:

July 17, 2009 at 3:05 pm

[...] Week Ever blog gives a pretty funny run down of the whole story here. I have to agree with the blog Meidaite who filed this story under “great moments in journalism” – the reporting on the story [...]

sasha2010 says:

July 17, 2009 at 5:37 pm

a little light story is not so bad- that was interesting actually

Alan Colmes’ Liberaland » Gay Penguin Goes Straight says:

July 17, 2009 at 5:38 pm

[...] MEDIAite) Harry and Pepper were together for six years until Linda’s mate, Sid, died, and Linda [...]

GAY PENGUIN GOES STRAIGHT « The Sports Pig’s Blog says:

July 17, 2009 at 8:11 pm

[...] new website Mediaite.com taunts the media for its coverage of this story with a “Great Moments in Journalism” [...]

How Did The President, Famous People, New Media React To Cronkite’s Death? | ExclusiveRumors.com says:

July 18, 2009 at 4:35 pm

[...] media personae against each other when they’re not trying to kick sand at other outlets or mourning the breakup of gay penguins. Well, for one thing, poor Cronkite wasn’t even awesome enough to make the list of 214 [...]

How Did The President, Famous People, And New Media React To Old Walter Cronkite’s Death? | Defamer Australia says:

July 19, 2009 at 7:09 am

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