Health care and the war in Afghanistan may have claimed the major portion of coverage in the traditional news media, but in the social media sphere, the leading topics were the undead and cocaine found on dead presidents.rnAccording to the latest Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) New Media Index, the top blog topic was the story of Canadian researchers' "mathematical exercise to see if a zombie attack would lead to the collapse of civilization," with 33% of the news-related links from the 100 million blogs surveyed. The researchers were trying to use a media-catching model for a more serious look at the reaction to a pandemic.
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