Fickle journos

IN Media Watch Briefs | 11/01/2014

UP CM Akhilesh Yadav seems to think that a ride on his campaign plane was a favour to journalists which deserved a quid pro quo. At his Friday presser he said that an English TV channel dropped their interview with him on the plane because their marketing dept. didn't like it. He had its journalist's SMS as evidence. English didn't mean much to his constituency but he had obliged as there were people around the world who cared for socialism he said, adding that he had several SMSs from journalists about their compulsions regarding managements which he can make public.

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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.