Audience for online news and Blogs grow -- TV news declines

[KurtNYC]

Journalism.org is a great resource for looking at media trends and audience and content analysis. This article looks at growth in the use of the internet as a news source. The big picture is, as expected, the online audience is growing and the TV audience is declining although there is debate about how fast and how far the trend will go.

The Web is journalism's growth area. More people are going online everyday, and while the growth rate may be slowing, as is inevitable with new technologies, growth still is predicted to continue, and with it, so is consumption of news online. This may be causing some erosion in the use of old media, but it is not across the board. At least so far, the Internet may be hurting television viewing more than newspaper and magazine reading.
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A 2000 survey from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press also found that those who regularly went online reported watching less network television news than two years earlier. Fewer watched television news overall, and those who did watched less of it. Meanwhile, viewing among those who did not go online was unchanged.

http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/narrative_online_audience.asp

[ChairOne]

1. And the conservative media just doesn't get it.....

... people would watch if they would just tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth....

they *know* this of course - they're just a mirror-reflection of the American public - they don't care.

[KurtNYC]

3. Yes! It is not just the introduction of online news as a source.

The MSM TV news entities have spent a significant portion of their credibility. They are driving people away.

[tsuki]

4. I really think that the only ones still plugged in to the TV set in

large numbers are conservatives.

[SmokingJacket]

2. Television news doesn't *have* to be bad...

they've deliberately made it bad, and now no one wants to watch it.

Maybe they'll get the message now??

As if.

[bettyellen]

5. Vanity Fair reported a 1/3 drop in viewership in the last

was it 25- 30 years for the three networks. It pointed out the networks used to have great national news, because it used to be immune to budget concerns and protected from the programming executaive's whims, but no more.
It's only there apparently, becasue they are compelled to provide public service programming. It's fallen pretty far away from the original intention, huh?

[Jensen]

6. I have DU ......I have been LIBERATED!

No more corporate media for me! Hurray!!!

[jdj]

7. The truth is the tube news was in decline well before bloggers

they can't blame that one on us.

[Ironpost]

10. I say let them blame us all they want.

The important thing is they're going down the tube.

[nostamj]

8. until recently, I continued to at least "monitor"

the cable newscasts.

I just can't anymore. I just can't. I was watching to get new, of course, but to see how (if) they were covering any news.

but, I just can't anymore. I just can't.

[cliss]

9. Thanks Kurt (a very happy DU:er)

Without a doubt, this ranks as one of the best threads I've read on the DU.:smoke::smoke:

I've been waiting for this. People have been complaining about the media for the past 4 years. Nothing was ever done to correct this. Nothing WILL be done until people start tuning out = the only thing that really talks = money.

This is precisely the reason why I turned off my TV. It's gone. The news was absolutely horrible. It was loud, screechy, in my face and it gave me a headache. Every time I turned it on, it was the same thing. It finally got to the point where I couldn't watch it anymore.:hangover:

I migrated to the Internet, and found home sweet home. Now, I'm in control of what I read. There's no noise, and I get to read the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the DU Truth.

[KurtNYC]

11. Awww Gee whiz

:blush:

I thought it was good news too and wanted to share. TV isn't mass communication so much as it is mass hypnosis at this point. The net is at least a dialog.

There was another article on that site (although I can't find it now) that look at all media side-by-side -- newspapers, cable, internet. And it showed even more clearly the decline in newspaper circulation, the decline in cable news viewing and the growth in use of the internet as a news source.

[mandyky]

12. If this is the case, maybe we should recycle all the "old" scandals

about boy george and his cohorts...