Mended promises?

Following on from yesterday's rant regarding being let down on contrib just one day before deadline. The agency in question has come up with a last gasp attempt to save the day. I just received this:

Hi Fin,

Further to this, the CTO has suggested that he would be able to draft an article for you by Monday. I know you would prefer a different exec and that this is beyond the deadline you told us, but if there was any way you could wait until Monday, the CTO would be able to get this over to you.

Please let me know whether this might be acceptable and apologies again for the difficulties we have had with this.

Kind Regards,

PR

Hmmm, not the right person and well past deadline would usually mean curtains. However, there is another group of people whose existence, while necessary, causes journos even more pain than PRs: Salesmen. When they haven't sold, deadlines get moved. That's just the way it goes. The PR, by a twist of fate, has got more time....

The deadline is Monday, the PR has got the weekend to come up with the goods. Will they make it into the supplement?

Only time will tell......