New Media Index: Bloggers Discuss GOP-Led 112th Congress; Apple Remains Apple of Tweeters' Eyes
The Republican-controlled 112th Congress was the subject of the most news links shared by bloggers, while the Twitterverse was enthralled with Apple for the second consecutive week, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was BBC footage of polar bears playing with hidden “spy” cameras, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Jan. 3-7.
A total of 32 percent of bloggers’ news links focused on the new Congress, followed by: the death of actress Anne Francis, at 18 percent; a BBC audio interview with openly gay actor Rupert Everett about the problems homosexuals face in the film industry, at 10 percent; White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs leaving his post to help direct President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, at 9 percent; and a story in USA Today about thousands of red-winged blackbirds falling dead in an Arkansas town...
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