Gupta's Express

IN Media Watch Briefs | 02/06/2014

Shekhar Gupta could not have had a better run at the Indian Express if he had owned it, though he had a not insignificant stake in the company. While he made it the newspaper you would choose if you were allowed only one, it gave him a platform that would have had editors around the world rubbing around their eyes in disbelief. The top billing he got on its pages will continue till he leaves, and a second volume of his much promoted book is believed to be in the works. Will his future employers be able to match this hospitality?

Subscribe To The Newsletter

Media Watch Briefs

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.