New Media Index: Bloggers Tell TSA Not to Touch Their Junk; Twitter Mostly Mashable
The new security measures implemented by the Transportation Security Administration dominated the list of news links shared by bloggers during the week of Nov. 22-26, while Mashable accounted for four of the five most-Tweeted news links, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was a clip of a collision during an AC Milan soccer match, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.
A total of 54 percent of news links shared by bloggers were related to the controversy over the TSA measures — don’t touch my junk, bro — and it was followed by: Formula 1 racing, at 18 percent; British police, at 13 percent; a column in The Washington Post by former President Jimmy Carter about how the United States should handle relations with North Korea, at 4 percent; and also at 4 percent, news that Velma Hart — the woman...
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