Et tu, print?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 20/07/2009

We thought that television news channels were the only media that claimed exclusives indiscriminately even as the same ¿exclusives¿ appeared across other channels. Now it seems that the print media is also suffering from the ¿exclusive¿ flu. In its latest edition, July 27, Outlook has a story (Exiting Windows) on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation handing over its not so successful HIV/AIDs programme to the government. The same story appeared in a more detailed form in Forbes India, June 19 (How Bill Gates Blew $258 Million in India¿s HIV Corridor).

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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.