An Altered BP Photo Leads the Blogosphere
Project for Excellence in Journalism, July 30, 2010
Last week, the two most popular stories among bloggers highlighted the roles of—and differences between—traditional journalism and digital media in a rapidly changing news universe. For the week of July 19-23, 22 percent of the news links on blogs were about a Washington Post report on the photo that made the BP crisis center look busier than it was.
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