Posted on 07/31/2009 8:08:23 AM PDT by AIM Freeper
Newspapers may be facing falling circulation and in some cases shutting down entirely but most people still rely on them for their daily news fix.
From the Columbia Journalism Review
For those of us of a certain small-but-growing subset— the blogging, commenting, techno-savvy, early-adopting, extreme-news consumers, it’s sometimes easy to forget that most people don’t live like we do. They don’t use RSS. They don’t Twitter. They don’t read twenty blogs a day. They (some 100 million or so) still actually pick up the newspaper and read it.
Martin Langeveld published a fascinating analysis a few months ago on how much reading of a newspaper is done online versus in print and came up with a shocking estimate: 96.5 percent print, 3.5 percent online.
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You’re absolutely correct, most people don’t do all that.
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