Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas‘ failure to report his wife’s earnings over a five-year period was the subject of the most news links shared via bloggers, while a TechCrunch item defending Aol against a story in The New Yorker was the most-Tweeted news link, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was the Jan. 19 installment of The Philip DeFranco Show, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Jan. 24-28.
The Supreme controversy represented 14 percent of shared news links, and it was followed in the blogosphere by: the U.S. economy, particularly a story in The Washington Post stating that President Barack Obama was unlikely to support his deficit commission’s controversial proposals regarding Social Security, at 11 percent; also at 11 percent, a Los Angeles Times post about two teen-agers found dead in an apartment alongside an empty can of caffeinated alcoholic drink Four Loko; a contribution from the British Broadcasting Corp. about a polar bear that swam for more than nine days in search of sea ice, at 10 percent; and another BBC item on the firing of British sports announcer Andy Gray due to allegations of sexist and improper behavior, at 9 percent.
