Achche din ki khabar

IN Media Watch Briefs | 09/05/2015

If you don't know that achche din are already here as promised a year ago, you are watching the wrong channels. Just stay with DD News. You will know that the Naxals are being banished from Dantewada with good governance initiatives such as an education city, social security schemes related to pension and insurance schemes that cost Rs 1 a day for Rs 2 lakh cover are being launched for the whole country, jobs for youth are at the core of this government's policies, and we have a prime minister who has time to sit down and play music with school children. The news anchor smiles indulgently as she delivers all of this.

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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.