← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Howard Campbell, Jr.
Thread ID: 17156 | Posts: 7 | Started: 2005-03-07
2005-03-07 01:42 | User Profile
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...while the influence of newspapers dropped from 60% to 39%.
Internet influence grew sixfold since 1996 campaigns
NEW YORK More and more people are relying on the Internet for political news -- while shunning newspapers.
That's according to a new study that finds six times the number of people turned to the Internet for news during last year's presidential campaign than in 1996.
Eighteen percent of American adults cited the Internet as one of their two main sources of news about the presidential races, compared with three percent in 1996. The reliance on television grew slightly to 78 percent, up from 72 percent.
Meanwhile, the influence of newspapers dropped to 39 percent last year, from 60 percent in 1996.
The telephone-based survey was conducted by the Pew Research Center for The People and the Press and the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
2005-03-07 02:32 | User Profile
How many Americans read Pravda today? :D
2005-03-07 02:51 | User Profile
Most people get their indoctrination from the television and movies. The literate audience, a small minority in itself, is shifting toward the internet. That's my take on it.
2005-03-07 03:13 | User Profile
Most people probably have never seen alternative views presented in a systematic manner from respectable outlets. Wide availability of foreign television with their news reports not castrated to the attention span of Big Mac eaters (throw in naked boobs to attract boobus americanus) would greatly reduce the authoritativeness of televitz. I mean, once you familiarize yourself with alternative points of view, televitz becomes nauseatingly predictable and orwellish to tolerate.
2005-03-07 03:45 | User Profile
For us maybe, most people insist on being stupified. I tell ya, it's going to take ragnarok to shake people up.
2005-03-07 04:26 | User Profile
[QUOTE=madrussian]How many Americans read Pravda today? :D[/QUOTE]
The Pravda and the Mosnews.com, not to many knows about that one.
Spaciva.
2005-03-07 06:03 | User Profile
[QUOTE=madrussian]How many Americans read Pravda today? :D[/QUOTE]
There is no pravda in Pravda, I'm told. :D
Speaking for myself, I would read three newspapers daily before I went on-line (1997)--today I read just as much on the Web and don't waste any time on AP filler; ads; sports or pop-kultur trash.
I'll buy my next paper paper when I get a new puppy to train...