No political vendetta?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 05/06/2017

The CBI becomes the third government agency to go after the owners of NDTV and its holding company, RRPR Holding Pvt Ltd. They are already being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate and the Income Tax Department. This case dates back to 2009, the CBI says it is investigating fraud involving a private bank.  As the Hoot explained earlier  a whole cast of characters then associated with the BJP, including  MJ Akbar, Yashwant Sinha, and Ram Jethmalani were involved in making a complaint about the manner in which the Radhika Roy-Prannoy Roy company took a loan from ICICI bank. The Roys had sued Akbar's paper at that time, the Sunday Guardian, for its allegations and the story had been taken off the website.  On Monday evening (June 5) NDTV posted a letter from ICICI  Bank saying all loans had been repaid.                                                                                      

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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.                   

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.                 

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