Talk:Ponyville Confidential/@comment-69.171.178.73-20120401073559/@comment-53539-20120401113641

Even if the girls quit without the blackmail threat being there it was clear DT would have kept the name "Gummy Gums" alive. So publically announcing that GG was quitting and would not be a feature of the paper ever again was the only way out. DT could not use Gummy Gum's name after the letter was printed because someone would have felt something was up about it. DT could stop them leaving the newspaper with the blackmail, but they couldn't stop them announcing GG wasn't be run included anymore on the paper.

However, it was clear no matter what, DT was going to run those humilating photographs of the 3 no matter what they did that wasn't to DT's liking.

If they had run anything on DT, they would have been thrown off the paper likewise without signing off GG. Again DT could continue to use GG without the 3 being on the paper, not being on the staff would have left everything to the mercy of DT.

I was expecting the ending to be simply that they let DT print the photographs as I saw a similair storyline to this on "the replacements" when it was running.