Burson-Marsteller Disputes Hill Story on Stimulus Contract
The Hill‘s Alexander Bolton reported today that Burson-Marsteller received “$5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus” package, which “helped preserve three jobs” at the agency. The contract was for a PR campaign around the national switch from analog to digital television.
Burson-Marsteller responded via blog post, calling the story, “fundamentally inaccurate.” The post says the budget for the contract was $6 million, but only $4.36 million was spent, $2.439 million of which went to a media buy and $147,000 of which went to “advertising production houses.”
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