The RP’s Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of the Media

A few weeks after the surprising news of Osama Bin Laden’s death, data from multiple polls reveals that Americans’ primary source of news coverage was television. [Poynter Institute]

Newsweek discusses how American media outlets have coped with a particularly difficult May news cycle in the face of major budget cuts. [Newsweek]

Donald Trump’s fake presidential bid, by the numbers: [Good Magazine]

Twitter is in more trouble. British soccer star Ryan Giggs is suing the social media site for revealing his affair with a British model, despite an injunction that prevented the information from being printed in traditional media. [Wired]

A small group of Christians said The Rapture would happen on May 21, 2011. Here’s how the media and American culture built the “end of the world” up into a cultural phenomenon: [Associated Press]