Incompetent reporting

IN Media Watch Briefs | 12/02/2013

On Tuesday the Supreme Court sought responses to two separate petitions filed by Zee Television, but you would not guess that from the way some papers reported it. The Economic Times said that apart from the petition seeking to quash three FIRs registered at the behest of Naveen Jindal's company Zee had filed a second petition. This one challenged the government's guidelines for uplinking and downlinking as being violative of the right to free speech. This does not come through in the reports carried in the Indian Express and the Hindustan Times.

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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.