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IN Media Watch Briefs | 17/05/2016

Just how many different users is one photograph going to show up? First Amit Shah brandished an Outlook cover to justlfy PM Modi's claims on malnutrition in Kerala. Then a website pointed out that the cover picture was a picture of a mother and child in Sri Lanka which Outlook took from a US State Dept report on Sri Lanka for a cover story on malnutrition in Kerala. And on April 16 the Indian Express reported that the Congress party had used the same picture to lament about malnutrition in Gujarat when Modi was CM!

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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.