Gossip, tattle, slander have always been around. All it takes is one ‘tiny victory’ for an entire readership to assume all of Crazy Days and Nights is legitimate." “Crazy Days and Nights is all about the reveal. It’s a whole other beast to reveal that blind," Vanity Fair said.
More recently, the anonymous self-confessed entertainment lawyer who runs a website named Crazy Days and Nights was crowned King of the Hollywood Blind Item.
In the US, the New York Post has a history of publishing blinds on page 6. British tabloids are infamous for their celebrity hounding both on ground-as we know from Lady Diana’s tragic death-and in newsprint. The acid lingers, gathering harmful contagions along the way.īlind items are not an India-specific phenomenon. Corrections are rare, and if any, one can rarely guarantee that they flow through the same channels that the slander did. Blind items not only safeguard entities from potential lawsuits, the veneer also encourages exaggeration and vulgarity. While some mainstream media give space to blind items, a website like OSOP exists solely for publishing blind items and collating and “solving" them. There is much wrong with the blind item apart from its now politically incorrect coinage. “We wrote this blind just 5 days ago…." (the idea that the account can’t do basic mathematics is as disturbing as its posts). What I am most perplexed by is that Bollywood Insider retweeted their blind item on the day of Rajput’s death on 14 June as a sort of boast. On 29 May, there was on 2 June, (OSOP) on 7 June, Bollywood Insider went so far as to say he has “gone off the rails" on 12 June, OSOP again. Little birdie is usually not right."įollowing Sanon’s outburst, I looked up blind items on Rajput. you have no idea how badly that can affect someone’s mind, their family, their life.
Blind gossip agc series#
Suicide is a complex phenomenon and while it is incorrect to ascribe any single trigger for Rajput’s death, it would be incorrect also to ignore the series of blind items that surfaced in the fortnight leading up to his death, and indeed, the dangerous and pervasive culture of celebrity blind items that they indicate.Īctor Kriti Sanon, in angry social media posts mid-week, said: “Blind items should be illegal, should be banned! They should come under mental harassment!. With the young actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death by suicide this week (Read our cover story here), I have been thinking back to that anonymous blind item. The writer didn’t, for to do that would be to acknowledge the post. Some believed the blindsided writer should write back.
Blind gossip agc skin#
But as there were no names, and no way to be certain, it was the subject, not the author, who stayed home embarrassed and shamefaced.Īt the time, I remember being lectured on the high value that French culture places on satire (the Charlie Hebdo shooting had not happened yet) and how we should develop a thicker skin and not feel the discomfort we were feeling. While the piece didn’t make any serious allegations, it was downright nasty. Everyone knew who the post was about, and soon enough, everyone knew who it was written by as well. It was, unfortunately, written by another writer friend. The biggest secret held though is about the singing wife (rumored to be a lesbian).Around 10 years ago, a blind item about a writer friend circulated in Delhi’s incestuous writer-publisher-People Who Go To Khan Market circles, published on a blog exclusively set up to carry this blind item. The rapper should watch out though because his most recent ex (Jahna Sebastian) knows all the secrets including another child of the rapper which would make things really awkward. Things have got to the point of death threats. Along with his wife (Alicia Keys), who is a former A list singer, they terrorize all his exes (Mashonda Tifrere). This former A- list rapper/producer (Swizz Beatz) who is in love with the last letter of the alphabet projects this peace and love kind of image.
0 kommentar(er)
