New Media Index: Bloggers Find Religion, Tweeters Find Dead Mouse in Their Bread

Bloggers lost their religion over a Los Angeles Times story about a survey showing that atheists and agnostics were more knowledgeable about religion than followers of major faiths, while the most-Tweeted news link was a BBC item about a British food production company that was forced to pay a fine after a man found a dead mouse embedded in a loaf of bread, and the most-viewed news and politics video on YouTube was Swiss finance minister Hans-Rudolf Merz laughing uncontrollably while delivering a speech, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Sept.