Foreign perspectives

IN Media Watch Briefs | 21/01/2017

As Donald Trump wound up his inaugural speech Indian news channels were all a-twitter at his protectionism pitch. But what did  RT, the Russian channel serve up for Trump's inauguration? An all American panel with an ageing  Larry King,  discussing  the outgoing and incoming presidents from an US rather than Russian perspective. Is that because  the Russians have less to worry about than Indians do?!                        

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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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