Not free to caricature ISIS

IN Media Watch Briefs | 01/12/2015

Offices of the Lokmat newspaper across Maharashtra were attacked for a cartoon in the paper's supplement which picturised funding for ISIS as a piggy bank. DNA reports that the article titled 'ISIS cha Paisa' (ISIS' money) and the cartoon irked members of the Muslim community and hundreds of them in Dhule, Nandurbar, Malegaon and other parts of the state staged protests. While an FIR was registered against the cartoonist and the editor of the paper, the latter apologised and promised action against those responsible for its publication.

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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.