Celebration Time

IN Media Watch Briefs | 16/09/2002

Celebration Time

Celebration Time

Just a week ago the top half of the front page of the Economic Times and an entire inside page was given over to fulsome reporting on the E T Awards for Corporate Excellence. Now apparently Delhi Times has completed eight years of existence so it naturally turned over its entire edition into a celebration of this anniversary. Loads of ads and several pages devoted to the eight theme: eight fitness therapies, eight chefs, eight recipes, eight women at the top, eight men at the top, eight ways to chill out, eight ways to have a great time in bed, and eight opinions on bust sizes, if you please.

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