Fair-use excerpts proving a cash-flow relationship, details of which are not publicly disclosed but; "PAID ADVERTISEMENT," has to mean what it says,
"PAID," i.e., purchased.
Is it simple marking of territory? How much, paid by whom, to whom, and is anybody to any measured surprised? HH and JK know that detail, for certain. It arguably is a defining moment, as to independent journalism - the meaning of the term, its implementation, all that.
The sign-off at the bottom in each excerpt says, "Harold E. Hamilton, owner".