So much attention!

IN Media Watch Briefs | 07/03/2016

The media is intent upon launching Kanhaiya Kumar on his political career earlier than he might have planned. With a little help from Sitaram Yechury who claimed him for the CPM last week. The interviews are endless: when he is not making speeches on the campus, the JNUSU leader has been explaining to TV anchors the difference between desh drohi and raj drohi. Dutt turned over her "We the People" show on Sunday to him, asked him if wanted to come into politics, and announced that we were seeing the birth of a political star. In ET Rajesh Ramachandran wrote an entire piece on why he should quit Left politics.

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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.