When National Review readers on the email list this morning got their morning news, ("The Morning Jolt") in their inboxes, they really received a morning jolt: porn in their inbox, and it wasn't polling declaring Michele Bachmann 20 points ahead of a virtual race with Barack Obama.
Every morning, like a lot of political sites, the National Review sends out an email recapping the latest news. But this morning, the links in their email sent readers to porn sites. Jim Geraghty explains:
The version I sent along to the editors seems fine (you can see a portion in the preview post here) so there must be some issue with the link-shortener used in the editing process. (Without the link-shortener, in some e-mail programs every link URL is listed within the text and makes the Jolt hard to read with an iPhone or Blackberry or other mobile device.) While I’m not a tech guy, I suspect somebody messed with the URL shortener so that it redirects to the bad sites.
The National Review uses Constant Contact to track click throughs of their content by using rs6.net url shorteners to link to the content. I am unfamiliar with the service, but it sounds fishy to me.
As someone who blogs every week, I constantly check my links (including the one above) to make sure that they work and that they go to the right sites. What do you think? Is he lying or is it a legitimate claim?