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We get attacked regularly in our own comments. In fact, that's half the reason we continue to show up at Jossip HQ each morning. So we know how it feels for Brian Stetler – TVNewser blogger extraordinaire and someone we agree with Brian Williams when he says he's fond of the college senior – to get lampooned on his own terrirtory. Like he is on his BBS (that's "bulletin board system," we think) in a topic titled "stelter attacks ny post & olbermann watch."

The naysayers are accusing Stetler of being a "propaganda arm for MSNBC and [Keith] Olbermann himself. Something about the way he's apparently in awe of Olbermann and takes time to bash Keith's critics.

Here at Jossip, we're often accused of being a propaganda arm ourselves. We're working for Fox News when we harp on Tucker, Rita, and Alison. We're working for NBC News when we run items on CBS News' PR man Gil Schwartz. And when we tout Barbara Walters' get for ABC, we're, well, accused of being Disney's biggest mouthpiece.

So let us be clear: We are a propaganda arm. For you, you bitches. Its the tens of thousands of industry minions who read us everyday whose backs we've got. We've got no agenda, per se; a good story is a good story is a good story. So share them — about your company, or about your competitors. And if it checks out, or holds the slightest chance it might be true or entertaining to at least one person, we just might move on it.

Just nothing about Shanna Moakler. Seriously.

Comments (0)

No. 1 · chris

I personally know Brian as a fellow student at Towson and I must say, involved as he seems with the media he is a really genuine kid and is actually far from being a tool of msnbc knowingly or unknowingly. He's still your average college kid, not a succeptible scheming media insider

Posted: Dec 21, 2006 at 3:46 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 2 · Mike

Which is why a kid shouldn't be running a media website: he doesn't realize he's being "spun" by the networks and is probably still starstruck at being praised by the likes of Williams, Olbermann, etc. Furthermore, the kid has never worked a DAY as a paid employee of a television station or cable news or major news operation on the network level. Until he does, I look at his fawning comments very suspiciously.

Posted: Dec 21, 2006 at 6:25 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
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