I started working at the paper approximately three and a half years ago, just before the scandal was launched. I therefore have limited knowledge of the program, but as far as I know, we had little or no demand for advertising under the program.
However, we regularly published campaigns for various federal departments, which has disappeared with the launching of the scandal. The purchase level for government advertising has not recovered since. It is beginning to re-establish itself, but we will have to wait a year in order to really assess the situation, because the buying level varies from month to month. We have seen an increase in the last few months, but we will have to wait in order to see if the trend continues.
The moratorium on federal advertising was a decision taken in the wake of the scandal that did not really affect us. The purchase of federal advertising started to decrease immediately following the ad scam, and that trend has continued.