New Media Index: Bloggers Focus on General McChrystal; Dismissal of Viacom-YouTube Suit Tops Twitter
The resignation of General Stanley McChrystal accounted for the most news links shared by bloggers during the week of June 21-25, while the most-Tweeted news links concerned the dismissal of Viacom’s lawsuit against YouTube. Speaking of YouTube, the most-viewed news and politics video on the Google-owned video site for the second week in a row was Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) physically confronting two men who asked him questions on the street, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellent in Journalism’s New Media Index.
The loose-tongued general and the war effort as a whole accounted for 27 percent of news links shared by bloggers, followed by: a BBC.com
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