REJIMON K : Articles

Reporting or covering up?

BY REJIMON K| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |17/11/2015

The Kerala media have been self censoring stories to protect advertisers and influential people.

Kerala scribe joins Al-Qaeda in Syria

BY REJIMON K| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |10/08/2015

One journalist joins Al Nusra and another wants to join IS.

Twitter and Swaraj to the rescue in Yemen

BY REJIMON K| IN DIGITAL MEDIA |04/04/2015

Indians stranded in Yemen were using Twitter to reach out directly to Sushma Swaraj. Who in turn responded to their Twitter handles.

The media does not care about issues that affect migrants

BY REJIMON K| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |20/05/2014

Instead of discussing the Indian migrants' expectations from Modi the TV channel suggested that the media and governments in the Gulf were worried about his victory.

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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.