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The "money-can't-buy" quote is only around those three words, and I couldn't find the part where it says positive in the image of the slide. Did they post the other slides? While this doesn't look good, that line you quoted is misleading based on the information presented.

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Quite. The only 'sort of smoking' gun is that one slide. From which an awful lot more has been extrapolated.

Looks to me like they've been a bit ambiguous with promises of earned media, which is a typical goal of conventional advertising campaigns.

Well, presumably this is a leak from the Standard's own newsroom, so they'd be wary about releasing too many pictures lest their source be exposed, then fired.

So that would be a "no" on having anything more than an anonymously sources assertion from a partisan organisation.

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