More People Get Their News From Social Media Than Newspapers, Study Finds

[DEAD7]

More People Get Their News From Social Media Than Newspapers, Study Finds

Though television is still the dominant news source for American adults, it has been on a decline -- 57 percent of surveyed adults reported getting their news from television regularly back in 2016. And Pew points out that when you look at online news sources together, so either news websites or social media, it's creeping up to TV as the top source, pulling 43 percent of adults combined. But there are significant differences between age groups. TV is by far the most popular news source for adults aged 50 and over while just 16 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds and 36 percent of 30- to 49-year-olds say they often get news via television. Among the youngest adults (aged 18 to 29), social media is the most popular platform for news, and for 30- to 49-year-olds, websites are the top news source.

More people get their news from social media than newspapers

 

[NoirDynosaur]

Technology is influencing folks at a rapid rate...

Radio stations were taken over by television stations

As soon as people gained access to the internet, less people started to tuning in and streaming more...

It's the same with music. From vinyl to 8 tracks to CD's to mp3s..

However for news, one should look for one that has an impartial stance.

 

[intra vires]

Yes and?

You can follow credible journalists and even newspapers who will tweet out links to their articles or video clips. I'm sure many on this subforum, including myself, get a large portion of their news from the way I just described.

Quality information is more important than technological medium used to get it. I mean there was a study that came out several years ago that found Fox News viewers were less informed than people who watched the Daily Show with John Stewart. Which means a Comedy Central show was more informative than one of America's major news outlets. Of course, a finding like that is more interesting than this, which merely speaks to the technological period we're in.

I like that you try to post interesting articles so please keep it up OP.

 

[Serious]

Yo @DEAD7 how about we team up to make a disinformation site aimed GOP voters, right before 2020..

 

[feelosofer]

Yes and with that it basically took basic things like objectivism and fact checking with it.

 

[robb]

i get my news from the coli higher learning.
And my chic...she watches TYT

 

[Supercoolmayo]

But russia propaganda on social media didnt influence anyone th9