New Media Index: Formula 1 TV Deal Starts Twitter’s Engines

Twitter users rushed to express their displeasure with the deal by the British Broadcasting Corp. and Sky Sports to air Formula 1 auto races, as only one-half of the events will now be on free TV, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of July 25-29.

Twitter users rushed to express their displeasure with the deal by the British Broadcasting Corp. and Sky Sports to air Formula 1 auto races, as only one-half of the events will now be on free TV, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of July 25-29.

Meanwhile, bloggers were focused on the debt ceiling, and the most-viewed news and politics video on YouTube was footage showing the aftermath of the July 22 bomb blast in downtown Oslo, Norway.

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