BY Manu Moudgil| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |17/06/2013
Political parties operate in a space starkly different from government-run agencies which can actually help them escape close scrutiny.
BY Manu Moudgil| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |03/02/2013
The former South Asia bureau chief of Der Spiegel accuses the magazine of discrimination in employment matters.
BY Manu Moudgil| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |28/01/2013
The media welcomed the UID's promise of giving an identity to those outside the system, but has failed to track its failure to do so.
BY Manu Moudgil| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |29/09/2012
All political parties, except the CPI have refused to provide names of their donors saying they don't come under the purview of the RTI Act.
BY Manu Moudgil| IN BOOKS |03/04/2012
The role of Central Information Commission (CIC) since 2005 has been exemplary. It has dealt successfully with various serious issues like disclosure of information related to mercy petitions, phone tapping and bank details,
BY Manu Moudgil| IN BOOKS |31/03/2012
Public officers have been wrongly invoking exemptions under national interest to deny information under the RTI Act.
BY Manu Moudgil| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |16/10/2011
The fact that PCI was clueless about the grounds on which it rejected the application can be gauged from the divergent stances the information officer took.
BY Manu Moudgil| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |06/09/2011
The Times of India reruns a three-year-old story on Bt Cotton without any updates as paid news. It is described as a consumer connect initiative. Why did Mahyco Monsanto Biotech get this extolling story republished?
BY Manu Moudgil| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |08/08/2011
Ad campaigns of Idea Cellular try dealing with social issues but fall flat on logic,
BY Manu Moudgil| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |22/05/2011
Social activists have converted the RTI into a powerful tool for those seeking justice, using persistence. They acquire information under the act and give it to the media.
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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.                   

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.                 

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