Media priorities

IN Media Watch Briefs | 04/07/2015

On July 3 Hema Malini's injuries figured in newspaper headlines, the child her car killed, did not. Today the papers are making up with reports on the family which lost a child. The actress was rushed to Fortis hospital, but the injured child and her mother were not, says the story, but that detail only comes out a day later because the injured father makes the point. Another July 3 story in ET Panache also takes the cake. The lawyer who killed two when she crashed her Audi into their car in a drunk state is not going to get insurance cover. Her not getting the 10 to 15 lakh she would otherwise have got merits a smiling picture of her and a full story. But how much follow up has there been in any paper on the family that suffered two deaths when she crashed into them?

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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.