Americans prefer news from Web to newspapers: survey (AFP) - PEW Research Center

[JohnWxy]

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20081224/tc_afp/usmediaindustryinternet_081224183104



The Internet has surpassed newspapers as the main source for national and international news for Americans, according to a new survey.

Television, however, remains the preferred medium for Americans, according to the survey by the Washington-based Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

Seventy percent of the 1,489 people surveyed by Pew said television is their primary source for national and international news.

Forty percent said they get most of their news from the Internet, up from 24 percent in September 2007, and more than the 35 percent who cited newspapers as their main news source.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. And that's why they don't know shit.

[verges]

2. Did they ask:

If people get their news from the web because their local paper has deteriorated so much in the past five years because of the web?

I get my news from the web. I prefer a good newspaper. But that is a rapidly dying species.