Gore scores

IN Media Watch Briefs | 23/10/2002

Gore scores

Exchange4media.com reports that gory news gets soaring viewership on the news channels. When Zee News covered live a military operation to flush out terrorists from a house in Srinagar on September 24, its live four hour telecast registered an unprecedented viewership of over 7 per cent televison viwership rating in Delhi. The same evening the terrorist attack on the Askshardham temple in Gujarat began. That week recorded an overall increase in viewership for all news channels.

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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.