Wishful thinking

IN Media Watch Briefs | 28/03/2013

Was the Zee TV reporter doing a phono on Sanjay Dutt's short statement before the media, indulging in wishful thinking? The reporter said : "Sanjay Dutt said he loved the media". Sanjay Dutt never said he loved the media. What he said was that he loved India and his countrymen. He appealed to the media to leave him " be in peace" and since he is not going for a pardon, there should not be a "debate about it". What did the media do immediately after the appeal? The camera crews chased him in their cars to his shooting venue.

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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.