Men only

IN Media Watch Briefs | 18/09/2016

The Uri attack was naturally the focus on all prime time discussions on TV today. What was striking however was how every single channel only had male experts participating in the anchor led debates. So here are the cold statistics from a quick channel surf of the English channels - News X had six male guests and one male anchor. TImes Now had five male guests and one male anchor. CNN-IBN had six male guests and one male anchor and NDTV had four male guests and one female anchor. Talk about sex selective Indian TV !

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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.