Unlikely replacement

IN Media Watch Briefs | 01/05/2017

While Delhiites are consumed by hoardings of Arnab Goswami's Republic TV and India Today's Anjana Om Kashyap competing side by side on a city bridge, news consumers are in for a tantalising wait. What is one to make of the Halla Bol anchor of Aaj Tak, anchoring the same show Karan Thapar used to--To The Point? Does India Today want ratings of a different order? If her tweets are any indication she is heavily into the same sort of pro-army nationalism that Goswami is. The Kashyap hoarding's tag line is Reached and Waiting. Which became a trending hashtag on Twitter today.

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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.