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BY ac| IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |23/12/2014

While discussing the assembly election results in Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir on Dec 23, Navika Kumar of Times Now argued that because the recently declared income tax returns by the Congress politicians exceed that of their BJP counterparts, Congress candidates must be spending more on the elections. Are IT..

Never short of opinions

BY ac| IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |18/12/2014

On December 16, when all media was focused on the Taliban attack in Peshawar, Press Council chief Markandey Katju decided to contribute his tupenny worth on Facebook: “In my opinion such incidents are a direct and inevitable consequence of creating a theological state in a subcontinent of such diversity. We shall..

Mamata, media and Nabanna

BY ac| IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |06/12/2014

On Friday in Kolkata the West Bengal government banned movement of journalists inside Nabanna, the secretariat with a policeman threatening them with "serious consequences" if they moved beyond the press corner. A circular issued on January 15 had said that only a reporter having a prior appointment with a minister..

TOI stealing classifieds?

BY ac| IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |06/12/2014

The Deccan Chronicle has taken the Times of India to court for a systemic theft of classified ads from its pages. On December 5 it published a report where it said it will publish “in a series, ad after ad that appeared in the ToI a few days after they..

Breaking their own news

BY ac| IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |22/11/2014

Some of the employees of the Hindi news channel P7 News, which is owned by Pearls Broadcasting Corporation Ltd and is based out of Noida sector 57, went on a strike yesterday, demanding salary for the previous few months. In the evening the channel even broadcast a “breaking news”: “salary..

Bribery or courtesy?

BY ac| IN MEDIA WATCH BRIEFS |13/11/2014

In a press conference organized by Uco Bank in Puri yesterday, Pinaki Mishra, the BJD MP of the temple town, allegedly tried to bribe journalists by giving Rs 200 in envelopes. After some journalists boycotted the conference, Mishra, who heads the Standing Committee on Urban Development, and about which he..

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Amazon resisting voluntary censorship

The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.

Let the games begin

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.