Our insider's analysis of the situation at MTV yesterday drew an immediate and contrary response. We reprint it here in order to give both sides of the story. Also, because it gives us another excuse to run that picture of MTV's Mika Salmi.

As someone still at MTVN. I read your post this AM...
Not totally correct, but on its way...

1. Your former Viacom staffer, seems to have a 1500 mile away view of everything.. Shitting on nits like Wolf and Browning is easy. 2. Where is McGrath in all this? Why is she blameless? She brought in Wolf? She was behind letting good people like Scannell, Frank, Hirschhorn and Dunn walk out the door. 3. You have it wrong on Hirschhorn. Everyone here knows he's the one that told them to buy MySpace and IGN and no one listened. True he got golden parachuted, but only after he couldn't take the company missing out one more time. More power to him for getting paid, had we listened to him we wouldn't be in this shape.

We'd guess this is from Hirschorn himself, but it says "still at MTVN," so maybe not. Further elucidation welcome.

Earlier: Inside Baseball: MTV Networks