Goswami is back

IN Media Watch Briefs | 06/05/2017

Republic TV launched on May 6 in a burst of flag waving, literal and figurative, promising to "give it back to the anti-nationals". It will take on one powerful person a day the channel promises, and began with Mohammad Shahabuddin in Siwan in Bihar, playing a tape of him hectoring RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav to act against policemen. We hope the list of powerful wrongdoers it takes on will not be selective.

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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.