[M.J. Akbar - Editor in Chief, The Asian Age & Deccan Chronicle & Author of Several Books] But if as Marshall McLuhan noted, the medium is the message, then the message is bacchanalia. Salman Khan, Bipasha Basu and Anil Kapoor’s entry theme on MTV is followed immediately by an advertisement warning a middle class family about AIDS, and no one sees the irony.
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