Second anniv promotion?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 25/04/2016

Even as some newspapers including the Dainik Jagran and Indian Express are reporting that an informal group of ministers has suggested ways to step up focus on the BJP government's achievements as it approaches its second anniversary, unnamed "top" government sources quoted in TOI are hastening to scotch the reports. They deny that the government intends to prefix the prime minister's name to central government schemes, or that cinemas will be ask to mandatorily show short films on the government's achievements before screening their regular fare.

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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.