How come?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 07/12/2010

Media houses in India digging up dirt on other media houses is so very unusual that one cannot help wondering why the Sunday Guardian has published its expose of specific financial transactions made by NDTV back in 2008. Its story on December 5, 2010 alleges that NDTV Limited and associate companies indulged in financial misdemeanours and malpractices in connivance with ICICI Bank, and raised funds by misdeclaration of the value of shares in NDTV. The story does ask or answer the question, how did Prannoy and Radhika Roy repay the loans if they were in such dire financial straits?

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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.