New Media Index: Patriot Act Accounts for Most Shared News Links via Both Blogs, Twitter
The House of Representatives vote on whether to extend the Patriot Act was the subject of the most news links shared via both blogs and Twitter during the week of Feb. 7-11, while the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was the Feb. 7 edition of The Philip Defranco Show, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.
The Feb. 8 vote accounted for 17 percent of news links shared by bloggers, followed by: a column by The Washington Post sportswriter Sally Jenkins criticizing the lavishness of the Super Bowl in Dallas, at 14 percent; a Washington Post report that the U.S.
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