Are you guys ever gonna call me re: my email???

Here is my opinion if anyone cares: I don’t think that there would have been an uproar if JP just let it go. Ocean Drive Magazine is a very powerful medium.

On one level I feel badly for Trisha; she lost a good gig. On another leveL she’s gotten a whole hell of a lot of press out of this. I mean come on—HUFFINTON POST, NY POST!!!

There are many glossies that try to compete with OD but, so far, no mag can. It will be an incredible coup if Miami monthly becomes a formidable competitor to Ocean Drive Magazine.

Many celebs and fabs are vapid but many are also socially conscious. Does OD get points for playing to the vapid rather than the virtuous? Would advertisers have punished OD if they did not fire her?  Ahh the questions

By firing her, he not only brought attention, and possibly sympathy, toward the residents’ concerns, he might have made the magazine look foolish for giving such a lame excuse. The other columnists and employees of the magazine may not have gotten such a good feeling either, knowing their employer will not back up their right to voice an opinion that may not be in line with the corporate one (who even knows the company line on most issues?).

And I’m not sure the public, the ones who buy the magazine, were too pleased when one of their residents got fired.

Looking at it from the sponsor’s perspective– would they really refuse to advertise because Ocean Drive did not fire Posner? Advertising in the magazine is usually an economic decision– not a political one– especially when you’re talking about bars and restaurants. If the ads work (bring customers), they pay to advertise. I don’t see how the ads would attract less customers if Posner was still a columnist.