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DAVP’s advertisement allocation politics –II

BY SAI VINOD| IN SPECIAL REPORTS |23/08/2018

Govt ad allocations increase in the year preceding an election, there is a good year ahead for the regional press.

Do we have a right to information? No, says MIB

BY SAI VINOD| IN SPECIAL REPORTS |31/07/2018

It took 2 years and 7 months to obtain ownership data on media companies which the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting routinely collects.

DAVP’s ad politics--Express loses, Pioneer gains

BY SAI VINOD| IN SPECIAL REPORTS |04/07/2018

NDA government cuts ads to the Indian Express second year running, and leading Hindi newspapers get more by way of advertising than leading English ones.

TV bans: Don’t let the issue die down

BY SAI VINOD| IN LAW AND POLICY |14/11/2016

Government bans on TV won’t go away. They have been around for 12 years, and a sustained campaign against bans as a method of regulation is the only solution.

The BJP government’s preferred icon

BY SAI VINOD| IN SPECIAL REPORTS |04/02/2016

Sardar Patel is energetically memorialized by this government, Ambedkar embraced, and Nehru snubbed,

BJP’s commemoration politics

BY SAI VINOD| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |07/12/2015

2015 marks the 125th birth anniversaries of both Ambedkar and Nehru, but the treatment given by GOI to the two is strikingly different.

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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.