Out to get Tharoor

IN Media Watch Briefs | 14/01/2015

Times Now’s Newshour on Jan. 13 saw Arnab Goswami hammering away with the statement of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor to the Delhi Police two days after Sunanda Pushkar's death in January 2014. Goswami said Tharoor was “hyper-desperate,” floating “all kinds of theories in less than 48 hours after his wife’s murder: Lupus, Alprax....” (Why bother with words like alleged?) Most of his accusations relied on leaked medical reports of AIIMS and KIMS. Medical reports are privileged documents. Is it the police or hospitals that are leaking them? He ended his show dramatically, saying, “We are going to get to the bottom of this!...”’

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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.