Mumbai costs hurting the Mahavishnu

IN Media Watch Briefs | 23/12/2015

The Hindu's Mumbai edition, launched with much fanfare last month, has set off a crisis for the paper. The editor is under pressure from some members of the Board for exceeding the budget set for the edition. The cost overrun is huge, and the price for it is being paid by senior staffers at other editions who are being asked to retire, or take a pay cut, or being transferred in the hope that they will resign. The resident editor of one of the Southern editions has resigned on account of an unsanctioned budget for the edition he runs.

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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.