Trump TV

IN Media Watch Briefs | 27/10/2016

What does a politician who accuses the media of bias against him do? Start his own TV channel of course. It  is precisely what Donald Trump has done by starting a television channel just two weeks before US goes to the polls.  Named - Trump TV. The programming includes replaying the third round of the presidential debate and also interviews with his campaign managers.  Newspapers reported huge viewership for the replay of the third round. This ownership model is not new to Indians !            

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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.                   

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.                 

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