SO more people will be getting their news from CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, Oprah, People, Springer, MTV, etc. Until yesterday I thought decline of newspapers was good news. Not necessarily. People are not turning from newspapers because they don’t like liberal bias. Wishful thinking. TV sources have exploded over the last few decades. There used to be 3 1/2 hour network news shows every day. Now in addition we have several 24/7 cable news sources PLUS internet. Who needs to spend money on newspaper. Younger people never touch the things.
All this glee over the newspapers decline is delusional. It also means news sources are more centralized and controlled.
I disagree. And as evidence, I cite this very discussion board on which we post. And many thousands of other blogs and discussion boards available today that formerly were not.
It also means news sources are more centralized and controlled.Data actually indicates the exact opposite. Pay particular attention to the last line of the Universal McCann study.
Blogs are Pervasive and Part of Our Daily Lives
There have been a number of studies aimed at understanding the size of the Blogosphere, yielding widely disparate estimates of both the number of blogs and blog readership. All studies agree, however, that blogs are a global phenomenon that has hit the mainstream.
The numbers vary but agree that blogs are here to stay
- comScore MediaMetrix (August 2008)
- Blogs: 77.7 million unique visitors in the US
- Facebook: 41.0 million | MySpace 75.1 million
- Total internet audience 188.9 million
- eMarketer (May 2008)
- 94.1 million US blog readers in 2007 (50% of Internet users)
- 22.6 million US bloggers in 2007 (12%)
- Universal McCann (March 2008)
- 184 million WW have started a blog | 26.4 US
- 346 million WW read blogs | 60.3 US
- 77% of active Internet users read blogs
The Columbian is very liberal leaning, particularly on important local issues. They are very much controlled by or part of the local democratic party elite.
The consistently support raising taxes to fund utopian big-government programs.
Their latest cause is forcing us to get light rail, which is basically something our neighbors across the river in Oregon are forcing on us.
Your comments are thoughtful, but in this case ... we really might be better off without the Columbian. Many people (including me) HAVE stopped buying this paper because of it’s liberal bias.
The comments on their own web site are running 70% towards “serves you right, good riddance, if you weren’t totally in bed with the dems we might still read you ...”
The just did their election endorsements. I believe it was 100% Dems.