News source findings by Pew no suprise
Friday, December 26, 2008 8:02
While the comments by other readers question CNN and FOX News thoughts by the writer, the significance of the information is simply that American’s are embracing a new medium for keeping up with the what’s going on in their world. Poke at the specifics as much as you would like, but the simple fact is the Internet shows a dramatic rise this last year (although I am willing to say wait and see if it holds after the election/first year of a new president) and both Television and Newspapers are showing a consistent decline since early 2000. This is big to TV stations and Newspapers who have for decades enjoyed a rock solid financial base and unchalleneged reader/viewer audience. Having worked in a print-based environment whose graphs of units sold looked similar to both these I would guess TV and newspaper strategists are scrambling to protect their once concrete revenue streams.
Another interesting thing would be to see these numbers run alongside the rise of YouTube as the second most searched site on the Internet. Wouldn’t surprise me if the growth in YouTube and other similar services didn’t contribute to that 2007-2008 spike.
Vendor Hippo says:
December 30th, 2008 at 5:34 am
Another fact contributing to those numbers is that the internet attracts younger people than do print media. How many 14 -20 year olds do you see sitting around reading the newspaper? On the other hand, that age group uses the internet like mad. So while more and more older people may be making a switch from print to the internet, much of the numbers come from new users, those who have never read a newspaper and probably never will.
Vendor HIppo
Source: http://www.eitb24.com/new/en/B24_111448/life/EUSTAT-One-out-every-two-people-over-15-years-old-use/