More on Joe Trippi From Betsy Devine

Joe says--it ain't so.. Big media has been happily bashing both sides of the Dean-Trippi divide. Sure, Howard Dean lost a string of primaries--but Dean must be a villain to replace Joe Trippi as his campaign director. Sure, Trippi turned Dean's campaign from a footnote into a frontpage story--but he must be a villain because his company got paid millions to place Dean's ads. Funny how Trippi's alleged greed never makes Dean less of a villain for replacing him. Funny how Dean's alleged ingratitude never makes Trippi less of a villain for getting paid for the work he did. One side of the story, at last, speaks up for himself. Joe Trippi just got his own blog, Change for America". In today's post he tells the story big media doesn't want you to hear.I recently inquired about the contract and my compensation. It turns out it was a 7% contract. Meaning that if $7 million in TV was bought 93% went to TV stations to buy the time and 7% or $490,000 was paid to the firm in which I was a ...

23:16:27 February 11, 2004, Wednesday (PST) Source: The Mediaburn Radio Weblog

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