Posted on 12/23/2004 8:09:35 AM PST by pookie18
The number of Americans who rely on news outlets like NewsMax.com, the Drudge Report and FreeRepublic.com has jumped by 33 percent in just the last the two years, while virtually every other form of news media has lost readers and viewers, according to a new Gallup survey.
"The only news source to show an increase in daily use from Gallup's 2002 poll on media usage is the Internet -- now at an all-time high," the polling firm said this week. "Use of public television news, nightly network news, local television news, and National Public Radio has decreased, and the number of Americans who report using nightly network news programs, local TV news, local newspapers, and network newsmagazine shows reached new lows in this year's poll," said Gallup.
"Every source has fallen somewhat since 2002, with only news on the Internet gaining, from 15 percent [of readers] going there every day two years ago to 20 percent doing so today," reports Editor & Publisher, in their analysis of the Gallup survey.
"Some sources dropped heavily," notes E & P. "National newspapers are off 4 percent, from 11 to 7 percent; NPR is off 5 percent; local TV news is down 6 percent; network news down 7 percent; and PBS news plunged 8 percent. In that company, local newspapers are doing fairly well, only dropping 3 percent. Cable news dropped 2 percent."
The Gallup poll found that more than half - 51 percent - say they get news from local TV every day. 44 percent saying they get it from local newspapers. Cable news channels edged out network newscasts, 39 to 36 percent.
One catagory that was conspicuously absent from the Gallup survey - talk radio; a medium that more and more Americans have said they rely on for news in other surveys.
Let me pose a slightly different take..Newspapers all have websites..as do the TV nets..especially the cable ones..FOX, MSNBC, and CNN..in some ways the cable news websites are quite good..so..what's the difference..seems to me that they are all, well "morphing" ( for want of a better word.) into some new multi-media format..
Information from the internet is also always suspect, but, in the chaos of the internet, a consistent bias is impossible, and hidden agendas are necessarily various and inconsistent.
Whatever advantages there were in having the "Mainstream Newsmedia" serve as a "gatekeeper" to evaluate the veracity of information reported were abolished when the "Mainstream Newsmedia" became a Propaganda Machine, itself assaulting the veracity of the information it reported, instead of a mirror of truth.
Why, that means people are reading even MY words....
.....(swooning) ... I'm a STAR......
.....I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille!
Nice words!!
-- Cecil
It looks like an out-of-focus camera shot of Easter Island.
DRUDGE reports today that the founder of USA TODAY is calling for the US and our allies to "give up" in Iraq and bring the troops home. For sometime I have observed that USA TODAY's front page is a perfect propaganda tool for our enemies. They almost "gleefully" report new deaths of troops in Iraq and headline anything negative in the economy or, certainly, that reflects negatively on the President.Who needs a modern day "Tokyo Rose"?
I decided several weeks ago......they no longer get my
75 cents per day. Who needs them? I have "FREE REPUBLIC"!
Where's my bowling ball, Alice?
YEAH baby, lets take MSM down, the evil corrupt slimes. Oh, and Merry Christmas all. Keep up the good work.
The entire "Mainstream Newsmedia" is a fifth column for America's enemies. You're right; the so-called "journalists" of the "Mainstream Newsmedia" are gleeful about anything that disparages or harms the United States.
This is a good thing...unless you're ABCCBSNBCNYTWP.
Too bad, so sad. :o)
"National newspapers are off 4 percent, from 11 to 7 percent;..."
This also means that newspapers are down 36%. Imagine if your paycheck was down by 36% over the last 2 years.
Yeah, it's kinda like if the military were gutted by a certain percentage, let's say between 1992-2000, we'd have problems in Iraq in 2003-4...
POOK!
Thanks! I've been looking for that data, and you provided it in a sourced table!
At a job I'm at, I have a couple of libs whom I'm working over, and they are getting a REAL education lately, this will be a killer for them. They were saying that "this was Clinton's military that is beating the taliban and al qaeda" and I have been saying that they are winning despite Clinton's deep military cuts."
Oh, next week will be fun.
Thanks for the Christmas present!
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Internet =
The only thing standing between HILLARY and the White House
See:
'HILLARY's Secret War: The CLINTON Conspiracy to Muzzle Internet Journalists'
...by RICHARD POE
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