MANU MOUDGIL and MONAZIR ALAM : Articles

BY MANU MOUDGIL and MONAZIR ALAM| IN BOOKS |14/07/2013

Channels varied widely in air time given to same story, ranging from 5 minutes to 44 minutes, or 1 minute plus to 37 minutes plus for a single story.

Jingoism on the airwaves

BY MANU MOUDGIL and MONAZIR ALAM| IN BOOKS |13/07/2013

Some news channels instantly went to war. The news crawler on Aaj Tak said,"Declare Pakistan a terror state." Few aspired to objectivity.

Awash in advertising

BY MANU MOUDGIL and MONAZIR ALAM| IN BOOKS |03/04/2013

A monitoring of advertisements appearing on news channels shows that adhering to the TRAI's 12 minutes per hour limit will be tough for the Hindi news channels.

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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.