Bloggers attended a Tea Party during the week of Oct. 18-22, while Tweeters took to the sky with an iPhone and HD video camera, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube featured unidentified flying objects over midtown Manhattan, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.
Delaware Republican Senate candidate and Tea Party member Christine O’Donnell‘s comments during a debate Oct. 19 represented the top subject of news links shared by bloggers, at 17 percent. It was followed by: an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times by former Yukos (Russian oil company) head Mikhail Khodorkovsky, at 14 percent; more Tea Party fun, with former Alaska Gov. and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin saying her supporters can’t “party like it’s 1773” until Washington is full of like-minded conservatives, at 8 percent; an op-ed in The Washington Post by Michael Gerson accusing President Barack Obama of being an “intellectual snob,” also at 8 percent; and NPR’s firing of Juan Williams, at 8 percent, as well.
