Historically, product-placement has usually meant a newspaper or magazine strategically placed in a movie shot to give the title some airtime. Or a TV star or studio artfully used as a prop. In both cases, it is big media (movies) pushing smaller media (print or electronic). With the new Ranbir Kapoor flick Barfi, product-placement comes…
Daily Archives: 14 September 2012
ToI, Narendra Modi & balls for Vivekananda yatra
Nothing is safe these days at the hands of the supersensitive—not even a simple headline. The Times of India ran an innocuous page one anchor on Thursday of footballs for Gujarat chief minister Narendra Damodardas Modi‘s “Vivekananda yuva vikas yatra” being made in Jalandhar. On Friday, the newspaper had to run this by way of…