Loaded news item?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 08/06/2015

Focus News did a story on May 8 on the power woes of the people of Muzaffarnagar and said that the supplier Essel Power was not doing a good job of power distribution. It spoke to BJP leader Sushil Modi as well. Unexceptionable you might say, to look at the power situation in summer with a delayed monsoon. Except that the old Naveen Jindal-Subhash Chandra animosity made you wonder whether there was more to the coverage. The channel has a Jindal link.

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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.