Social and Traditional Media Agree: Botched Terror Attack Is Big News

In a rare occurrence, three central elements of today's news ecosystem—the mainstream media, blogs and Twitter—agreed on the biggest story of the week, in this case, the failed Christmas Day terror attempt. From December 28, 2009 to January 1, 2010, more than half (52%) of the news links in blogs were about the attempt to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253, according to the New Media Index from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.