Admittedly, celebrities command print space. Even in advanced countries like US, film stars evoke feelings of mass hysteria.
The Americans' obsession with stars like Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie has to be seen to be believed. But even by such standards, the Indian media coverage of the Bachan-Rai wedding was too much. Even otherwise stoic papers like Deccan Herald had the news on its headlines - not once but on successive days.
I know it is too much to expect of our hoi polloi to stay aloof from titillation and sensationalism. But what of our intelligentsia and our 'mature' press ? Didn't they know better than to splash the story on their front pages almost daily ?
I must say I'm disappointed.
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