Selective news sense

IN Media Watch Briefs | 16/06/2011

The CAG report on how the government favoured Reliance and two other companies on KG-Basin gas was broken by TOI and HT on the same day, carried on page one, and both had follow up stories the next day. The Hindu picked it up on page one the second day. It was not news at all for the Indian Express, or the Economic Times, or News X. It finally surfaced in the Express on the third day with a different angle.

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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.