Patriotic high

IN Media Watch Briefs | 26/01/2018

After the Republic Day telecast Times Now was fulminating about the decision in J&K to withdraw cases against 9000 stone pelters. Rahul Shiv Shankar was thundering:"they will be back on the streets! These nasties will be back on the streets! The Mufti government is playing the worst kind of appeasement politics... Remember this morning, this morning, we all stood up and paid obeisance to the valour of our forces!" The withdrawal happens to be on the advice of the ministry of home affairs which the channel later grudgingly admitted.

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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.