Strictly house keeping.
This new article in Newsweek contains a brief reference to TPM as a blog covering the Social Security debate.
But down at the bottom of the page, in a box entitled “Sponsored Links” there is this ‘sponsored link’ …
“Social Security Reform
Reform or marketing hoax? Get the facts.
TalkingPointsMemo.com”
Click on the link and it takes you to this post.
Given that it’s a Google link, it’s probably appearing elsewhere too.
Now, in the four years TPM has been around, there are many worse problems we’ve had to deal with than free paid publicity. But TPM does no paid advertising ever. We didn’t pay for this. And we don’t know who did. It was only random chance that I even noticed it.
It’s certainly no federal case. And the logic of it suggests it was paid for by someone or some organization who agrees with our position and wants to spread the word. We’ll be contacting Google to find out who. But we thought it was important to set the record straight.
We don’t run ads for TPM or our work on Social Security. Whoever is is not connected with us in any way.
