New Media Index: Bloggers Dig Justin Bieber Prank; Tweeters Happy 6 Music Was Saved

An online prank on teen singing idol Justin Bieber accounted for the most shared news links by bloggers, while Twitter nation focused on the rejection by the British Broadcasting Corp.’s governing body of plans to close digital radio station 6 Music, and the most-shared news and politics video on YouTube was CNN’s Anderson Cooper criticizing a new government rule limiting media access to the Gulf of Mexico BP oil-spill cleanup, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of July 5-9.