New Media Index: Bloggers Slice Into Tax-Cut Accord; WikiLeaks Dominates Twitter

Bloggers shared the most news links about the deal between President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress on tax cuts, while the WikiLeaks saga accounted for the most Tweeted news links, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was an interview with Thomas Gottschalk, host of German game show Wetten Dass (Bet It), after 23-year-old contestant Samuel Koch attempted to jump a car using spring-loaded stilts known as “kangaroo shoes” and suffered major injuries, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Dec.