Posted on 03/06/2005 6:59:50 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Reliance on the Internet for political news during last year’s presidential campaign grew sixfold from 1996, while the influence of newspapers dropped sharply, according to a study issued Sunday.
Eighteen percent of American adults cited the Internet as one of their two main sources of news about the presidential races, compared with 3 percent in 1996. The reliance on television grew slightly to 78 percent, up from 72 percent.
Meanwhile, the influence of newspapers dropped to 39 percent last year, from 60 percent in 1996, according to the joint telephone-based survey from the Pew Research Center for The People and the Press and the Pew Internet and American Life Project. ...
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Since I set my 77-year-old Democrat father-in-law's homepage to The Washington Times web site, he has cancelled his newspaper subscription.
Same here.
They give them away free and I still throw them out unread.
We are constantly harassed by the NYT. When I tell them I wouldn't want their paper if it was free, then THEY HANG UP ON ME before making a nasty comment.
This would explain why the government is going after the internet tooth and claw nowadays. Beware McCain. Watch out for Bush.
Not good news to a lot of cocky, arrogant, elitist newspaper editors!! LOL
Still, they should put up a more vigorous fight than the buggy whip makers.
Or fertilize our gardens with? After the OKC bombing, I understand the New York Slimes was about to call for a ban on all fertilizer until they realized they'd put themselves right out of business!
We'll always have supermarket flyers
Very true - check out this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1354287/posts (haven't learned how to make it clickable - sorry!)
The title is: CNN flops in February as Fox News surges FNC only cable news network to see gains in primetime. Heartwarming story!
Ditto! Several months ago, I got an offer in the mail to sign up for a "special subscription price" for the NYT (I live in Sacramento, Ca). I sent it back with a note that I wouldn't have their rag in my house at any price, including free. Never heard from them again.
What they failed to note was the big increase in market share for Fox News. That probably was where the increase in tv % came from.
We'll buy directly from the paper mill and eliminate the middle man :-)
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