Missing panelist

IN Media Watch Briefs | 12/03/2008

NDTV ran a special programme called India’s Future with the Brookings Institution, on March 12. The title was not the only strange part. In the edited version one of the four panelists never spoke. You saw a smiling woman in long shots, you never found out who she was. Liquat Ahmed from the Brookings Institution was wrongly identified as Stephen Cohen. When Cohen spoke he was not identified. As they say, anything goes.

TAGS

NDTV Brookings

Subscribe To The Newsletter

Media Watch Briefs

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.