BY AMRIT DHILLON| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |06/12/2016
A new report says that press freedom has declined to its lowest point in 12 years and, this time, some European countries are in the dock.
BY AMRIT DHILLON| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |03/11/2016
He’s going but the Newshour could not have gone on for much longer. After all, how low, how noisy, how crude, how abusive can you go?
BY AMRIT DHILLON| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |04/08/2016
The Pentagon’s revised military manual says journalists working independently in conflict zones are not necessarily spies or saboteurs, but civilians to be protected.
BY AMRIT DHILLON| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |15/07/2016
The appearance of British women politicians is dissected with a sexism that is mercifully unthinkable in India, so far.
BY AMRIT DHILLON| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |29/03/2016
A Hindustan Times’ report on her suicide commits all the same errors that the papers were guilty of in the Aarushi Talwar case
BY AMRIT DHILLON| IN MEDIA BUSINESS |18/03/2016
Although the German channel is available on some DTH platforms, it is now poised to reach the urban middle class through Tata Sky.
BY AMRIT DHILLON| IN OPINION |13/02/2016
What appeared in the HT was not a column but an Ode to Hollande by Karan Thapar  
BY AMRIT DHILLON| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |02/02/2016
The YouTube channel, Dalit Camera Ambedkar, captures events and emotions the mainstream media has no time for.
BY AMRIT DHILLON| IN OPINION |18/01/2016
Two new videos depicting men who accept dowry as objects purchased by the bride, have received very little play in the media.
BY AMRIT DHILLON| IN OPINION |20/11/2015
India’s intellectuals are guilty of dishonesty in their depiction of India under Modi.
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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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