Sleazy Read From The Oxbridge

Oxford University, Photo by Ian Jones/www.telegraph.co.uk

An unknown female blogger recently started a racy online diary describing her sexual exploits and affairs at an Oxbridge University. The anonymous blogger of “Sex At Oxbridge” also used her Twitter account to posts regular updates on her status. The issue has raised concern over two aspects – one is the use or misuse of technology and another being the adverse publicity it has earned for the University, again a victim of media hype.
Sun Magazine headlines its write-up as Universlutty challenge, says, “A brainy girl student with a “voracious appetite for sex” is at the centre of a whodunnit mystery after writing a blog about her one-night stands. The saucy scholar began writing last week and curious undergraduates are desperate to find out who is penning the internet diary. The single “attractive” female, who says she is a “highly intelligent Oxbridge student currently shagging my way through the half-term hump”, is using oxbridgesex.blogspot.com to detail her flings.”

Now after how the popular tabloid puts it, The Telegraph says, Oxbridge sex blogger ‘lifts lid on university love life’. The issue has definitely triggered a controversy but in my view is media’s role only to sensationalise such stories which ‘sell’? The answer is a definite YES is you ask any media house, but at what cost? There are no answers. I am sure most of the readers would before reading this paragraph click the link in the earlier paragraph but those who have reached here need to introspect the role of media and technology today.

Can anyone just use any social platform like a blog to defame an institution? May be some of the blog posts are true and need immediate probe, but there is a need to keep a check on such explicit revealitions as well. Media needs to look deeper into such reports before actually serving them on a platter as a ‘sleazy readable stuff’, while misuse of internet has to be curbed before anyone can just shout his/her frustrations, which may later prove to be hoax.