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IN Media Watch Briefs | 26/08/2015

The murder allegations against Indrani Mukherjea, founder of 9X Media and wife of former Star TV CEO Peter Mukherjea, gave TV channels their story for the day. And they got lucky. Instead of the usual spectacle of the family involved dodging the media, here were her husband and son talking freely to reporters of different channels, inviting more intrusive questions in the process. CNN IBN reporter to Ms Mukherjea's son:"What are your impressions of Peter Mukherjea? What kind of a man was he? what was your relationship with him?" And NewsX was processing all into explosive claim no. 1, explosive claim no. 2, and so on.

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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.