Getting carried away

IN Media Watch Briefs | 14/04/2013

Heard on TV channels this weekend on the impact or non-impact of social media: Sam Pitroda in an interview on Doordarshan: “Social media is going to be the new mainstream media of the future..newspapers are a dying breed". A social media enthusiast on NDTV: "you don't have credibility if you don't have a Twitter account... “ Since when did social media take over from mainstream media? And since when did Twitter become the test of credibility?

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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.