Championing the cow

IN Media Watch Briefs | 26/10/2015
Zee TV is riding the anti cow slaughter bandwagon. On Sunday when all other channels were busy analysing why India lost the ODI series against South Africa, a Zee anchor launched into a  9 pm harangue on cow slaughter: Dharm bechain, kanoon lachar." (Religion is restless, the law is helpless.) It was billed  as an expose on cow trafficking and the slaughter of the animal for beef. If the powers that be are hassled by the rest of the media's stand on the lynching for beef and cow slaughter issue, they can count on a powerful media ally in Zee.  
 
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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.                   

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.                 

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