Hollywood Unions Want Product-Placement Rules

Movie and TV writers say they’re “being told to write the lines that sell this merchandise and to deftly disguise the sale as a story.” “Recent examples include the regular glowing endorsement of Cisco computer security by the characters in [the] US action TV series 24. The heroes also used a fleet of Ford cars as they battled with terrorists. Filmgoers are regularly exposed to products being worked into movies.”