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No idea – sounds like nothing more than you taking a bit of hearsay as gospel to me. Unless you could substantiate your claims in anyway, of course….
I know that one firm’s press releases stopped appearing when they scaled down their advertising and I have an e-mail from the man himself saying that appearing in a Pricewise table is linked to the amount of general advertising the firm undertakes.
I’m not judging whether either policy is right or wrong, but it’s not much of a stretch to think Paul might have substantiation to his point that he can’t share for commercial reasons.
It’s interesting that newspaper sales have perked up since the members’ area was launched, because there’s no evidence of that in the ABC figures.
I can’t see how the two are related, at all. You are just talking about basic commercial agreements. It is hardly the biggest surprise that if a company pulls its advertising from a publication, that they won’t have their name splashed all over it?
Paul has made a specific claim that bookmakers representatives have written copy for the RP, but not under their own names…
If he can’t or won’t substantiate the claims then no-one can possibly take them seriously (especially when the Editor has come on and completely refuted the suggestion) – end of story.
I thik it’s possible that Paul and Bruce can both be correct. I’m not saying this has happened at the Post becuase I don’t know, but I do know that if it has, it wouldn’t be the first time in the newspaper industry that a lazy journalist has pretty much copied a press release ad verbitum.
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