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Shakespeare famously wrote a play-within-a-play in A Midsummer Night's Dream to whip up the element of chaos and romance, but what's the point of a news story that is reporting on something that's not news?

"Is Megan Fox wearing out her welcome?" A dozen male-centric websites are reportedly imposing a ban on the starlet...for a full day. The sites, including Asylum.com, Ask Men, Just a Guy Thing, TheBachelorGuy.com and Double Viking have deemed August 4 as "a Megan Fox media blackout day." Other than I, who art the internet, have any of you heard of more than one of these sites? Didn't think so...

"You can have too much of a good thing," AskMen.com's uberdouche Editor-in-Chief James Bassil said, "We're joining in the media blackout and giving our readers a one-day reprieve from the woman we've been drowning in all summer." Good. That'll leave more room for exciting articles like "Men's Sandals Dos & Don'ts" and photo galleries of "Party For 3.1 Phillip Lim's LA Store".

Eric Rogell of TheBachelorGuy.com wants to shine the spotlight on a different young starlet, at least for a brief moment - but still admitted Megan has done wonders for his company. "Listen, we love Megan. She's responsible for driving more eyeballs to our sites -- just by getting photographed walking down the street in a white T-shirt -- than any other celeb alive," he told the paper. "It's time to give another young actress a shot at the attention. We're taking a one-day break from covering Megan's latest nail polish color and instead promoting another 'Next Big Thing.'" Which is sad, because they really do cover what nail polish color she has. And I wouldn't worry so much about them finding room for other women - today alone these were their first six links:

California cutie Katelynn Ansari

Meet Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Miryan Martin wears a bikini

Eliza Dushku steams up FHM

ESPN pit road hottie Shannon Spake

Sara Stone eats a sandwich. Topless.

So how did she do it? In addition to press around the world for "Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen," the "actress" has graced the covers of many major magazines over the last few months, including Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Empire, Maxim, Elle and GQ UK. And all of those websites, too - by their own choosing. Other than being the better set of boobs in the film (see my live-blog on the film regarding Turturro and that other guy), she's yet to start the PR cycle for her next film, so the only reason she's in everyone's face is that these dickbags have put her there. So the one day you decide your website is overloaded with Megan Fox, think for a second and figure out who put her there. And when that lightbulb goes off, you should also realize your shoulder hurts from unnecessarily patting yourself on the back for it.