quarta-feira, fevereiro 15, 2006: CHENEY SHOOTS HUNTING BUDDY, NEWS OR NOT?

CHENEY SHOOTS HUNTING BUDDY, NEWS OR NOT?: "One thing that is clear in the 'is it news or not' debate is that the Web has turned upside down the ability of the mainstream media to set any sort of agenda as to what is news. Web surfers vote with their clicks as to what they think is most interesting, and the Cheney shooting accident seems to interest just about everyone. If news is defined as what people are talking about, Cheney shooting a hunting buddy qualifies for sure.

On MSN, the No. 1 search was Dick Cheney. On Technorati, he was the second most searched for. On blog tracking site IceRocket, Dick Cheney was the No. 1 hot topic, and listed 922 posts on the accident, just behind the 1,024 posts about the Olympics.

Lycos found within 24 hours searches for Vice President Dick Cheney jumped 300%. The majority of those queries were for jokes related to the incident, but the most used terms included Dick Cheney Accident, Dick Cheney Shot, Dick Cheney Jokes, Cheney’s Got A Gun, and I Shot Dick Cheney. Web sites proliferated with photos of Dick Cheney doctored to show him dressed as Elmer Fudd or befuddled by similarities between quail and attorneys. Yahoo’s Buzz Index yesterday noted that news of the shooting accident sent searches on Mr. Cheney shooting skyward, up 2,815%. Other top searches included 'dick cheney hunting,' 'dick cheney jokes,' and " and "aaron burr" (the last vice president to be involved in a shooting). Even today, news surrounding the incident were Yahoo’s No. 9 and No. 10 most viewed news, and its No. 6 most e-mailed story. The incident seems destined to become entrenched as a pop cultural moment. "

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