Working on hacks

IN Media Watch Briefs | 23/12/2008

Aamir Khan knows how to have the media eating out of his hands. While promoting his latest film Gajini he sent 200 reporters photographs of themselves with a personal note to each one inscribed at the back. Those who reported this could not help telling you in their stories that they were one of the chosen many. He also visited TV channels: in CNN IBN¿s Mumbai office he posed, answered questions and even hugged reporters. Along with his barbering stint, it got him a lot of press.

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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.