OT: Readers prefer web to papers for news

[Guest guest]

This has to be disturbing, but not surprising news for those who rely

on heavy influence with the broadcast media: the pharmaceutical

industry and public health agencies, as well as the other prominent

industries and government sources of propaganda.

-Lenny

Readers prefer web to papers for news

From correspondents in Washington

Agence France-Presse http://is.gd/dlMM

THE internet has surpassed newspapers as the main source for national

and international news for Americans, a new survey says.

Television, however, remains the preferred medium for Americans,

according to the survey by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre

for the People & the Press.

Seventy per cent of the 1489 people surveyed by Pew said television

was their primary source for national and international news.

Forty per cent said they get most of their news from the internet, up

from 24 per cent in September 2007, and more than the 35 per cent who

cited newspapers as their main news source.

Only 59 per cent of people younger than 30 years old prefer

television, Pew said, down from 68 per cent in the September 2007 survey.

The latest survey was conducted December 3-7 and released on Tuesday.

Pew did not provide the margin of error.