Pew survey shows Internet unexpectedly soaring, Tee Vee mysteriously tanking as primary news source ping.
Posted on 09/26/2011 2:09:21 PM PDT by ReformationFan
The Internet has risen to its all-time high as a primary source of news for Americans with 43 percent now saying they get most of their news on national and international issues from the web, according to a survey published Thursday by the Pew Research Center for The People & The Press.
Meanwhile, television sits at an all-time low as a primary source of news for Americans with only 66 percent now saying they get most of their national and international news from TV--a nadir television also hit in December 2010.
Since 1991, Pew has periodically asked Americans: “How do you get most of your news about national and international issues?”
In this survey, respondents are allowed to give up to two answers. (So, a person can cite both television and the Internet, or television and radio, or newspapers and television, etc., as the places where they get most of their news--and the combined percentages for the various sources can add up to more than 100 percent).
In the two decades Pew has been tracking this trend in American news sources, television peaked as the primary source of news for Americans at the time s of the September 2001 terrorist attacks, when 90 percent said they got most of their news from TV. Television nearly returned to that level in March 2003, during the invasion of Iraq, and September 2005, during Hurricane Katrina. At both those times, 89 percent said they got most of their national and international news from TV.
However, during normal news times--when there was not a major act of war or natural disaster--TV hit its apex in January 1996, when 88 percent said it was the place they got most of their national and international news.
The Internet first appeared in Pew’s survey of news sources in January 1999, when 6 percent said the web was where they got most of their news about national and international issues.
Overall, in Pew’s latest survey, 66 percent said television was their primary source for national and international news, 43 percent said the Internet, 31 percent said newspapers, 19 percent said radio, 3 percent said magazines, and 4 percent said it was another source.
For the survey released yesterday, Pew interviewed 1,501 adults from July 20-24. The survey;s margin of error of +/- 3.5 points.
Wish they’d ask me:
10% - news periodicals
90% - Free Republic
0% - TV
The last time I watched TV news, with their beauty model talking heads, I just laughed...It’s become a pathetic wasteland, of totally choreographed and rehearsed streaming propaganda...My TV went back off after about 5 minutes.
Pew survey shows Internet unexpectedly soaring, Tee Vee mysteriously tanking as primary news source ping.
That's about it. :-))
Even if TV news were “fair and balanced”, it’s still a very inefficient way to get your news. A lot of time is wasted in setting the scene, etc. Then the actual “news” reports are very brief. You can’t drill deeper into a story. If you are watching “live”, rather than recorded news, you can’t skip ahead, you can’t go over it again. The only exception to this is breaking news, where the video portion actually matters.
2% Drudge
2% Facebook links
6% Financial/investing email subscriptions
90% Freerepublic
Seriously.
I come here for 99% of my news. Then I peruse a local tv station website to find the .0325% conservative news they publish, since the rest of it is commie pinko liberal faggot propoganda. (I go the the latter for the local weather mostly.)
i bet that 90 years ago the same people commissioned a poll on horse & buggy travel vs. the automobile...amazingly, they found that the new and superior form of transportation was supplanting the older form...
Wow. I'm surprised its that high. The Sheeple still are getting their fill of the propagandists. Therefore, we can easily conclude that 2/3s of the adults in this country are ill-informed dupes.
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