Victimised by the victim?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 14/10/2017

Outlook carried this story on the journalist Shweta Kothari who resigned from Republic TV, based on a statement she had put out on Twitter. She said she had been accused of being a mole for Shashi Tharoor and talked about the "constant humiliation" meted out to her while working at the channel. Her complaint received this damning response from an activist in the struggle against the Koodankulam nuclear power plant who says she interviewed him at his home under false pretences and conducted a sting operation on him to produce a story on how the protesters were stooges of the Catholic Church, greedy for foreign money.

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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.