Posted on 12/29/2008 12:47:39 PM PST by Enchante
Just by reading this online story, you are part of a groundbreaking trend. According to a new study from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press released last week, the Internet has passed newspapers as the most popular source for news.
Only television surpassed the Net, with about 70 percent of Americans saying they get most of their national and international news from the ubiquitous box. About 40 percent say they get most of their news from the Net, an increase of 16 percent from September 2007. Newspapers are the main source for about 35 percent.
This is the first time the Net has surpassed newspapers as a source of news.
(Excerpt) Read more at sci-tech-today.com ...
TV still #1 but for how much longer?
Just let the NY Times crumble into the ash-heap of MSM history and I’ll be happy!! :^)
The ability to go immediately to UK and European sites, to see what the truth may be, instead of swallowing the fifth column enemedia dnc fabrications spewing from the networks and newspapers in the US is the reason ...
Newspapers and TV are the top propaganda disseminaters
The problem is that the newspapers are not as credible as the internet. Kinda ironic.
Captain Obvious! Where are you?
Newspapers are good for putting your snowy or muddy boots on while they dry.
A big problem is getting rid of all the paper including all the inserts! It seems to me that the paper is 3/4 advertising. Local merchants do need the exposure...so declining circulation does impact them.
Yeah.
Last time I checked, the ABCBSNBC Nitwork idiots had run off roughly three fourths of their viewership over the past two decades. The only segment still faithfully tuning in to their broadcasts was women age 65 and older. Matt Drudge had more hits each day than the three MSM newsers combined.
That considered, I suspect the cited poll showing Tee Vee as the number one news source is about as accurate as the ones showing Barry would beat McLame by twenty percentage points.
40% Internet
35% Newspapers
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Methinks someone at Sci-tech Today never learned percentages -- or basic addition...
Not too long. The people who get most of their news from TV are over 60 and are not being replaced by younger people as they die off.
Nah, probably too late already. They dug their own grave. People want unbiased information not someone else's opinion slanted as news.
Mental defectives at Sci-Tech.... looks like they re-worded the poll question. On the Pew site it looks like the question was what was “A” main source of news, not “THE” main source..... so respondents could answer the poll question with multiple sources. At least that’s how it looks to me:
http://people-press.org/report/479/internet-overtakes-newspapers-as-news-source
Some of Pew's own article seems to slide between "a" and "the" so it's hard to be sure what they asked. But if the percentages are as reported then they must have allowed respondents to choose more than one news sources as "a" main source.....
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