For the First Time Ever… More Americans Get Their News Online Than From Newspapers
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 4:53 AM
This is the state-run media’s worst nightmare…
Americans are actually choosing to get their news from alternative sources.
A new poll by the Pew Research Center found that for the first time more Americans are getting their news online than from the newspaper.
The LA Times reported:
according to a major new study of how Americans use news media by the thoughtful folks over at the Pew Research Center, those newspaper readers have now been surpassed among news consumers.
For the first time in history, a larger percentage of Americans (46%) get their news online than get their news on that paper stuff that leaves their fingers ink-smudged (40%).
Only local television news (50%) still surpasses online as a source of news for Americans. And its lead is shrinking.
The little-noticed development has many major implications for American politics, how they operate and how they are consumed.
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NeoKong commented:
Hey…if I wanted my news blacked out and manged for me I would read the NYT’s or the Washington Post.
They don’t report the news.
They hide the news.
mg4us commented:
The amount of liberal bias is overwhelming . . . . where did professional journalism go?
Instead of news, we get sensationalism or propaganda. Disgusting!
Thank goodness for sites like this, Drudge, Breitbart, Hotair, Newsbusters to name a few!
Muffin commented:
There is no newsprint “news” anymore, it’s propaganda.
LimoLibsStink commented:
0bama:
This sucks worse that Barney Frank in a fully manned San Francisco bath house!
I have diverted billions upon billions of dollars from the Unions to prop up the NYT and WaPo! Yet, those two rags are leaking like the Titanic. Too many people are get their news from the internet. It’s time to control the internet! I require a man like Goebbels! And, I need complete control! I hate the Constitution!
I need Eric Holder and Muammar Gaddafi to stop this Internet Tsunami from washing me away like so many Toyota Prius’ bobbing in the murky water. Ah, crap Muammar Gaddafi is tied up with his own insurgency. I have the same problem and I suck worse than Gaddafi.
My Jumbo Jet is warmed up and I have a meeting with Soros and Sulzberger. All the NYT needs is a few Billion more to keep it out of the toilet. I know that the NYT sucks but I can make it suck better – just ask Barney Frank. Good day.
Mope commented:
For years I had the plastic bag delivered to my door to clean up after Fido. I just found out the bag was already full when it’s delivered. Huh. Who knew?
Dadzilla commented:
there’s still newspapers? That’s right the thing in the bottom of the cat box!
JPL17 commented:
This is the best news I’ve heard in months!
RedBeard commented:
I stopped reading newspapers along about 1995. Waste of time.
The St. Petersburg Times telemarketers keep calling my office, trying to sell us a business subscription. When they ask why I don’t want their rag, I tell them that if I wanted to be fed left wing nonsense, I would simply go to MSNBC. The callers seem as though they get that reaction often.
Militant Conservative commented:
He’ll I know the real news hours if not days before the tv, newspaper and even Rush.
Newspapers are a dead man walking.
Powder is dry
Andreas K. commented:
It’s slowly turning this way over here as well. A year ago newspapers in Germany whined that they’re losing subscribers.
Who’s really surprised?
Not I.
The only time I “read” a newspaper is when I visit my parents, since my father is still subscribing to several. And then I spent most of the time ranting about what is wrong in the articles.
Betsy commented:
Hang on, of those people who are now getting their news online, how many of those are getting from the online version of the same liberal newspapers they were getting it from before? I agree that independent news sources are growing while MSM sources decline, but the figures cited in that article don’t necessarily mean that blogs and the like have overtaken the MSM, not quite yet. I see a hell of a lot of people reading the NY Times on their iPads on my morning commute.
bg commented:
++
via AJ-E
Blasts deepen Japan nuclear crisis
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Andreas K. commented:
Actual status of Fukushima #1 and #2 as of 19:00 JST
http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_images/pdf/ENGNEWS01_1300189582P.pdf
The blasts are hydrogen explosions, not really amazing and not unexpected. Edano is a politician.
cal rifkin commented:
…good time to start an on-line conservative newspaper??
Rock commented:
But I thought the Liberal Lefts reporters where far superior to the average American. How could they write themselves out of work? Oh I forgot the unions stiffs did the same thing by sending their jobs overseas. Why do these fools keep killing their own future?
pj commented:
Americans have lost trust in the media ,this explains why Obama wants Internet kill switch,he can control the old media ,stuff gets out before they squelch it with the internet.
Buck commented:
I worked in the newspaper business for 27 years……on the business side, not the news/editorial side. I’ve worked for several major metros and major chains at the director level and, as such, know what goes on “inside basball”. I’ve always told my close friends if the public ever knew who ran these things and who really owned them, they wouldn’t buy one, let alone read one. The newspaper industry has been in a sharp decline for years……budget cuts, lay-offs, etc……and the senior managemt of every one I’ve worked for never once thought that the problem was their biased reporting, not once. It was always the fault of circulation management, advertising execs, marketing boobs, etc. They still, to this day, do not understand that unbiased, straight-up reporting is the key. As a side note, the only paper not losing circulation is the WSJ.
wodun commented:
When it comes to national and international news, you can read about issues online days, weeks, or months before it makes the local paper.
For local issues, local papers are still best but they need to embrace an on line delivery.
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