Posts Tagged ‘David Broder’

The earthquake and tsunami that victimized Japan March 11 accounted for a whopping 66 percent of Tweeted news links for the week of March 7-11, despite occurring on the last day of the period, while the upcoming 2012 presidential campaign dominated the blogosphere, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was a Spanish news report about a soccer player kicking an owl during a game, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.

The disaster was followed on the list of most-shared news links via Twitter by: the civil war in Libya, at 15 percent; a report in The Sun that Justin Bieber skateboarded through an airport terminal in Birmingham, at 13 percent; Google, at 10 percent; and a preview of the Apple iPad 2 from Mashable, at 7 percent.

The race for the 2012 presidential election accounted for 37 percent of news links shared by bloggers, followed by: the death of Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist David Broder, at 17 percent; the executive order signed by President Barack Obama to create a formal system of indefinite detention for prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, at 10 percent; a column in The Washington Post by George Will questioning the United States’ intervention in Libya, at 7 percent; and a Washington Post interview with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko regarding allegations that the recent election there was fraudulent, at 6 percent.

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Bloggers fretted the possibility of a war with Iran, while Mashable accounted for all of the five most-Tweeted news articles, as it did during the week of Oct. 18-22, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was an animated parody of the Tea Party movement, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Nov. 1-5.

Talk of a potential conflict with Iran was spurred by an Oct. 31 column in The Washington Post by David Broder, and it accounted for 35 percent of news links shared by bloggers. It was followed by: the midterm election results and their consequences, at 17 percent; another Washington Post column, in which Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke explained his organization’s response to the economic crisis, at 13 percent; the Oct. 30 Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington, D.C., organized by Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, at 10 percent; and a report from the British Broadcasting Corp. about a female boa constrictor that scientists claim had 22 baby snakes with no father, at 8 percent.

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