Unabashed

IN Media Watch Briefs | 22/05/2014

The Times Group is selective in its faith in industry numbers. On the one hand the Mumbai edition of the Times of India has gone off ABC, the print circulation figures put out by the Audit Bureau of Circulation. On the other, it relentlessly hammers away with industry figures which showed its two channels ahead of the competition in TV viewership at election time. It does not of course mention that its exit poll was the widest off the mark.

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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.