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Posted By: jay behrens

Protecting...defending...it's all semantics. When you get right down to it, it's still the same thing and makes you look bad because claiming the ad money doesn't influence you.

Even though I don't doubt that your personal relationship with Mastro is the overriding factor, the fact that you do take money from them makes you look bad in this situation.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. Any time you chime in in defense of an advertiser, friend or not, you are defending/protecting them, plain and simple. Trying to justify it as something else just makes you look bad.

You can't run a money making forum, claim to be unbiased/uninfluenced by the money and then defend/protect your advertisers. It's the reality of your situation whether you like it or not and you will get heat when you don't live up to your claim.

Jay

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