Label your footage

IN Media Watch Briefs | 27/01/2014

In a report titled 'Modi to address mega meet' Times Now used old file shots of large crowds thronging an unknown venue while the voice over said that more than one lakh people are expected to attend Modi's meeting in Mumbai. While predicting there would be large crowds at Modi's meeting, there was no need for the reporter/editor to put file shots of crowds from another venue. Labeling file footage is something all TV news channels are doing less and less.

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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.