Posted on 06/18/2009 10:46:54 AM PDT by lbryce
NY- The Internet is by far the most popular source of information and the preferred choice for news ahead of television, newspapers and radio, according to a new poll in the U.S.
But just a small fraction of U.S. adults considered social Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace as a good source of news and even fewer would opt for Twitter.
More than half of the people questioned in the Zogby Interactive survey said they would select the Internet if they had to choose only one source of news, followed by 21% for television and 10% for both newspapers and radio.
Only 10% described social Web sites as an important for news, and despite the media buzz about Twitter, only 4% would go to it for information.
The Internet was also selected as the most reliable source of news by nearly 40% of adults, compared with 17% who opted for television and 16% who selected newspapers and 13% for listened to the radio.
"The poll reinforces the idea that efforts by established newspapers, television and radio news outlets to push their consumers to their respective websites is working," Zogby said in a statement.
Almost half of 3,030 adults questioned in the online survey said national newspaper Web sites were important to them, followed by 43% who preferred television Web sites.
Blogs were less of a necessity than Web sites with only 28% of those polled saying blogs that shared their political viewpoint were important.
"That the Web sites of traditional news outlets are seen by a wide margin as more important than blog sites -- most of which are repositories of opinion devoid of actual reportage -- could be seen as an encouraging development for the media at large," Zogby added.
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Zogby's delusional mindset in giving credit to the dead-tree/MSM as the cause, reason for the internet being the leading source of news, defies all rationale, boggles the mind, assaults the senses in what has got to be the most egregiously convoluted manifestation of moon-battery yet.
The MSM is hemorrhaging untold billions of dollars struggling simply to survive, moribund, lifeless, rigor mortis about to set in, a carcass is all that will soon be left of them and Zogby has the temerity to give them the credit for the dynamism, vitality that the internet has become.
Zogby, like the MSM he so obsequiously serves is showing the onset of advanced Mad-Liberal-Diseased Brain Syndrome that has befallen them all.
In order to fully indulge in the dreadful reality so pervasive throughout the Dead-Tree Media, please listen to the musical composition linked below so as to enhance your SCHANDENFREUDE to absolute optimum capacity.
MoonBat Sonanta
What I’m saying is that the very success of the internet is the result of those very sites like Free Republic, folks you,Freepers, others like them , not the New York Times, and their demented- left-wing mentality. And for Zogby to make a statement that the internet is the number source for news because of dead-tree media is absolute hogwash.
“...efforts by established newspapers, television and radio news outlets to push their consumers to their respective websites is working,”
Right, the online versions of the rags and propaganda channels are what will make them successful again. I was wondering where to barf until I read that.
The Internet is our Paul Revere, and without it we will never know when to mobilize, and are screwed
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