Privacy and class

IN Media Watch Briefs | 12/03/2013

The poor are not entitled to privacy. Ram Singh's mother had to tell photographers to leave them alone, the papers reported on Tuesday. The pictures of his grieving parents and their home got printed anyway. Difficult to recall any pictures printed of the accused's families inside their homes in cases of middle or upper class offenders. We see pictures of Bitti, not of his parents.

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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.