New Media Index: BP's Photoshop Follies Top Blogger-Shared News Links

The altered photo of BP’s command center discovered last week by John Aravosis of AMERICAblog accounted for the most news links shared by bloggers, while the most-Tweeted news links involved a graphic-based report by BBC.com that showed how traffic on popular social-networking sites had changed over the past year, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube brought new meaning to the term “when donkeys fly,” thanks to a Russia Today report on a promotional stunt, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of July 19-23.

The altered BP photo accounted for 22 percent of news links shared via the blogosphere, and it was followed by: a column in the Washington Post magazine by Gene Weingarten, lamenting the changes to newspapers in the age of online news, at 16 percent; a column from Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander saying the...

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