[photopress:ITWei_Jiaqing_blog.jpg,full,alignright]It is very good that writers such as this one should be put smartly in their place.
The most popular blog entries — the ones that have the most visits — so far this year on Sina blog are about celebrities.
One of Wei Jiaqing’s blog articles has been viewed for nearly one million times. She is a 25-year-old model and singer who was in the 2006 Super Girl singing competition. She was among the eight blog articles that have been viewed for more than 500,000 times. Of these, six fall into the paparazzi and celebrity journal categories, written by celebrities themselves or by bloggers specializing in star tales.
In one of the popular articles, which is from a paparazzi site, the blogger recounted the love story between famous Taiwanese actress Lin Qingxia (Brigitte Lin) and her three lovers. The entry is full of detailed anecdotes and old pictures, demonstrating the blogger’s rich knowledge about the super star.
The two non-paparazzi entries that reached the 500,000-hit mark concern nothing serious, either. One of them is about China National Geography magazine’s project of searching for people with peculiar family names in China.
Thus as much as the Internet has become an important political forum for Chinese public, as well as for other nations, it is an even more powerful entertainment medium.
It is a depressing thought to find Paris Hilton, is richer, younger, better looking than you and gets 22,732 times more hits. Hits being meant in a positive way.
Source: China in Transition
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