No follow up?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 27/08/2008

Mail Today carried two stories on August 26 and 27 on the Bajrang Dal bombers, members of the BD who were accidentally killed in Kanpur while assembling bombs to mount a terrorist attack. It said police suspect these were meant for retaliatory attacks for the Ahmedabad blasts. The second story said the bomb- makers of Kanpur seem to be part of a larger network of terrorists planning a major attack. Amazingly, except for a small inside story in the Indian Express on August 27, no paper thought this was worth a follow up!

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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.