It is a different thing when it comes to addictive products. and government imposed disclaimers. There is another level of thought process that goes behind that. But when we are talking about choice of people based on products with or without disclaimers, disclaimers do hurt a bit there. :yes:

This is an altogether different thing about newspapers whereby they are a medium of advertising. Newspapers themselves advertise in aggressive ways for eg.  Look here . If  one thinks about it, newspapers may be the closest field whereby advertising is pretty much closely related to sales. What say people?

@Sana_Shaikh – aren’t newspapers selling the news? In a different way to look at it, can we think that the advertisements are also part of the news?

Great insight Binu. And Yes I also read about Google being interested in buying WhatsApp for around 10 billion $.                                      Still it is argued that Facebook will not be able to  make back its purchase price. Hence, it all comes down to the manner in which we are talking about the profitability here. If in terms of the…Read More