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BY S.Anand| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |12/04/2002

A journalist who headed the business desk of a daily proudly said that all his personal flights were sponsored by a private ai A journalist who headed the business desk of a daily proudly said that all his personal flights were sponsored by a private airliner. He saw nothing wrong in this ‘arrangement’. He gladly..

Scindia, Phoolan Devi And The Media

BY S.Anand| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |16/03/2002

Scindia, Phoolan Devi And The Media Scindia, Phoolan Devi And The Media By S.Anand The death of four journalists along with Madhavrao Scindia was mourned by the media. But nobody has asked the question, what were these journalists were doing with Scindia on a private flight? That the four journalists who accompanied Scindia morally compromised..

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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.