In the blog powered land

Last week Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had couple of non government engagements in Delhi. One of them was his felicitation by Gujarati Samaj. Our friend Nilesh Shukla who looks after Gujarat's media relations in Delhi for more than a decade asked Delhi media to cover the function.
However, at the venue it was chaos. No arrangement for media. Oraganisors checked media like sleuths. Confrontation was the natural outcome. Friends pulled all strings. Nilesh was at the airport. However, friends managed entry using BJP headquarters contacts.
Inside, trouble began afresh. Friends and fans of Modi began protesting the position of cameramen. They shouted and yelled. We do not want you, was the cry. Media persons looked around. Modi was very much settled on Dias.
They could not make out whether Modi was looking at them or he had a blank stare. They retreated in protest. But there was none to stop him. Certainly there could be no worse instance of humiliation of invited media.
All knew that there protests would meet the same fate in their own office. No one would take note of what happened with them. But Yashwant Singh who is associated with a blog Bhadas was prompt to put the matter on his blog in his own way within two hours of the incident. He also predicted that the protest issue would not appear anywhere.
The blog is a network of more than 250 media men. Daily, hundreds hits are registered on this blog. I also got to know about the incident from here only.
While surfing the same blog, I came across another post on the same day.
It was a resignation letter of a staffer of IANS Swatantra Mishra. It had outburst against the Executive Editor of the Hindi section of the IANS Arun Anand.
Some may find such an action improper. Here the merit of the case is not a point. But the power of blog is evident. It is a great leveler which has given power to anyone and everyone with connectivity. In a fast moving world this is a way to raise voice against those who are at higher platforms.