Strategic placement

IN Media Watch Briefs | 30/01/2013

The IBN Live website had a news item on the BJP on January 29 saying that the government crisis was deepening in Karnataka with the resignations of 13 Yedurappa loyalists. Just above the headline was a BJP ad banner which said the darkness would dispel, the sun would rise, the workers would unite, and the lotus would blossom! Was its placement a coincidence or by design?

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