Bollywood blog wars?

May 26, 2008 No Comments »

The Indian mainstream media doesn’t know how to chill it seems. They can’t digest the fact that film celebrities are publishing their own blogs and now the fans won’t have to bear the half-false-half-true stories/interviews of magazine and newspapers journalists. Just like blogging empowers a commoner, it also empowers celebrities: they can directly interact with their fans. This article on the BBC website says there have been lots of gaffes by the Indian celebrities, but this is how blogging, and consequently conversation, becomes interesting. The Indian mainstream media should relax and accept that the information power they used to wield in the past no longer remains their sole domain.