Green inconvenience

IN Media Watch Briefs | 29/02/2016

As the finance minister was reading the Budget speech the Press Information Bureau helpfully informed journalists that this year hard copies of the budget will not be distributed at Parliament House and at the National Media Centre. The number of hard copies had been curtailed it said, as part of the Green Effort of the Ministry of Forests. It was not clarified whether soft copies will be distributed at these points.

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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.