Posted on 03/01/2010 9:06:54 AM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Internet has become the third most popular news platform for American adults, trailing only local and national television stations, according to a survey released on Monday.
Seventy-eight percent of the 2,259 adults surveyed for the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and the Project for Excellence in Journalism said that on a typical day they get news from a local TV station.
Seventy-three percent said they get news from a national TV network such as CBS or a cable TV news station such as CNN or Fox.
Sixty-one percent said that on a typical day they get news online while 54 percent said they listen to a radio news program at home or in the car.
Fifty percent said they read news in a local newspaper and 17 percent said they read news in a national newspaper such as The New York Times or USA Today.
Ninety-nine percent said they get news from at least one of these media platforms: a local or national print newspaper, a local or national TV news broadcast, the radio or the Internet.
Ninety-two percent said they get news from multiple platforms on a typical day, with half using four to six platforms daily.
Twenty-one percent of American adults who get news online rely on just one website for news and information but 57 percent consult between two and five, the survey found.
Eleven percent said they get their news from more than five websites and 65 percent they do not have a favorite site.
"Americans have become news grazers both on and offline -- but within limits," ..
"They generally don't have one favorite website but also don't search aimlessly," she said. "Most online news consumers regularly draw on just a handful of different sites."
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I reckun I fall in the 5-to-10 web sites I view pretty regularly.
FR
Drudge
California news aggregator sites
Yahoo (I don’t GooGle)
Nascar.com 8-}
The Hill
SFGate
Olympics over, TV back into retirement.
A woman reads the online version of the New York Times. The Internet has become the third most popular news platform for American adults, trailing only local and national television stations, according to a survey released on Monday. (AFP/File/Karen Bleier)
Been on FR since ‘02 and it has been my number one ever since. Can’t sit through any telecast or really read news without seeing the overwhelming bias and general slide in quality. Example: The other day instead of reporting on the quake in Chile CNN literally had a guy translating the Chilean news with live video of him in the studio watching TV and telling us what was going on. Facts just get out faster online.
Isn’t 61 greater than 54? Looks like according to the poll, the Internet is the second most popular source.
It’s absolutely amazing that so many people are still willing to serially sit through a TV stream of mortgage commercials interspersed by missing persons reports, celebrity rehab news, and repetitive talking head sound bites to once in a while get a small nugget of real news.
probably because of old peole who simply refuse to use the internet.
They'd have better luck trying to convince me IRS employees are sponsoring tea party events.
Cmon, the internet is SECOND. Why break TV into local and national at all. They do that only to make internet third.
probably because of old peole who simply refuse to use the internet.
Check out who advertises on network news and you will find their audience. Geritol anyone?
These are the places i visit at least twice a day- morn & even.
FR
Ace of Spades
DrudgeReport
HotAir
Flopping Aces
Michelle Malkin
Istapundit
MoonBattery
Sweetness & Light
Are you suggesting those protected by government unions and on government payrolls want to see the size of government and it's tax revenues dramatically slashed and reduced, forcing the size of government to shrink substantially?
It's number one for getting news unfiltered by a leftist editor. FM/AM radio is probably the very fastest news platform. If someone has a face for radio, it doesn't take them much time to put on their makeup.
You can’t play Jeopardy on the intertubes!
Ninety-nine percent said they get news from at least one of these media platforms: a local or national print newspaper, a local or national TV news broadcast, the radio or the Internet.
Gee, they left out the town cryer and broadsides, guess
that is the other one percent.
I was only suggesting that it wasn’t a particularly strong mismatch as I don’t think that big government attitudes are found especially among IRS employees when compared with other agencies.
I did not know that IRS employees had a union until I read your posting and looked it up just a few minutes ago.
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