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Old Sep 14, 2017, 6:31 am
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Originally Posted by fumje
Didn't TPG post a goofy disparaging article about Polaris relatively soon after its roll-out?
As I mentioned in post 8, TPG's reviews of Polaris have been both good and bad, as you would expect from an organization with a genuine editorial mission. Of course they also exist to make money, hence the tension that has existed in every for-profit content enterprise ever conceived.

But again, some of their UA reviews in 2017 have been critical in the extreme. Here's another:

https://thepointsguy.com/2017/05/uni...tomer-service/

And yet just a few months earlier, they ran the puff piece to end all puff pieces:

https://thepointsguy.com/2017/02/first-polaris-biz-77w/

But even long-established media companies run both types of articles. In other words, it's complicated.
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