Closing in, in Bastar

IN Media Watch Briefs | 19/02/2016

Even as press freedom advocates are now absorbed in protesting the attacks on journalists in Delhi, the situation is becoming grimmer for the Scroll.in reporter whose property was attacked last week. Malini Subramaniam's young household help was summoned to the police station twice for interrogation, and kept there for hours. And her landlord was also summoned to the thana and by now has also issued an eviction notice to her. Her husband was called and held inside the police station. Lawyers helping her and the jailed journalists in Jagdalpur have also had their landlord questioned by the police, and he has given them notice to vacate their premises.

Subscribe To The Newsletter

Media Watch Briefs

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.