That was my original thought this morning, such a blatant press release. A "ready to go" article to the journalist to do the work for the day and get on with so

That was my original thought this morning, such a blatant press release. A "ready to go" article to the journalist to do the work for the day and get on with something else, common practice. However note the intro "according to a messaging service that analysed its traffic at the BBC's request."