Better late than never

IN Media Watch Briefs | 20/05/2017

Here is a delicious little piece of investigation by the Hindustan Times. When other newspapers reporter that the octogenarian former Haryana CM Om Prakash Chautala, convicted in a teacher recruitment scam, had passed the class 12 board exam while lodged in Tihar Jail, HT did a fact check. The story originated from Chautala's son but officials checked with said that he had appeared for the class 10 exam, not 12, and the results are not out yet!

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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.