Reporter knows more?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 27/09/2008

Here’s an odd one: the PRO of Delhi police writes to the Hindustan Times (September 27) to say that their story about one of the Delhi blast suspects arrested by them confessing that his associates plotted the Mumbai train blasts, is wrong. The interrogation revealed no such thing, he says. The reporter replies, that he did confess this, and he stands by his story. So he knows more than the cops do? Or is he hinting that their denial is false?

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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.