More Americans turning to Web for news

[lovuian]

I don't watch the Boob tube anymore
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080229/wr_nm/internet_news_dc

[NanceGreggs]

1. That's pretty astounding ...

"Nearly half of the 1,979 people who responded to the survey said their primary source of news and information is the Internet, up from 40 percent just a year ago. Less than one third use television to get their news ..."

Jeez, I wonder why this trend away from the MSM is happening ...

[Wabbajack_]

5. Only natural as the net

becomes a bigger and bigger part of life.

[SpiralHawk]

10. ...and as the mass corporate media borg continues to fudge and propagandize

on behalf of repulbicons, and to ignore the destruction of the Constitution, etc. etc. etc.

[cascadiance]

2. Bob Steele, of the article's cited Poynter Institute was my old boss over 20 years ago...q

when he was the news producer of the newscast at the TV station I used to work at there in the old days.

http://www.poynter.org/profile/profile.asp?user=1550

Heck even then, stuff was starting to go bad, though not near as bad as it is now.

Media consolidation in that locale kept a local oligopoly that prevented organized labor at those stations, and the joke at the station was that local stories got preference for the late news cast that had more to do with the topic of the preceding television show rather than how much their relative merit was at that point.

God, I wish we could have just had those problems we had then now! Steele was a good man then, and I'm guessing he's glad he's at the Poynter Institute now rather than trying to stay in television news now!

[mac2]

3. I look at the web for news and then cross check stories...

So much information and so little time.

The cross on your post is that Irish or Scottish symbol for you? Or just Christian?

I saw a beautiful Celtic cross like that in a small town in the Highlands of Scotland. What a beautiful county Scotland. I have yet to make it to Ireland.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. yes many of the stories come from traditional media

such as the BBC and other rurierner news sources

:-)

[Perry Logan]

6. Thank God the 109th Congress didn't have time to screw up the internet.

[Echo In Light]

7. Several months back CSPAN ran coverage of a big conference of corporate media types scared shitless

Over their loss of control of the public mind ...at least to the extent they had it before the Bush regime. Loss of readership, television viewers, etc, blaming the internet, etc. From what little I watched their strategy was to focus more on internet/interactive formats {to keep up with "trends" ha} , while many naturally decried the format due to its lack of "professionalism" i.e. non favorable views toward the corporate/state nexus.

[madokie]

8. KO, Bill Moyers and the putz when he has a presser

other than that I don't watch the tube either. Watching the pResident in one of his pressers is a strange feeling like I've never had experienced before he came along. On the one hand I would be in the floor laughing my ass off but the strangeness of it being true scares the beegeeies right out of me. strange strange feeling

[Echo In Light]

9. Yeah, even if they don't follow the details, on a visceral level many know that something is...

Terribly wrong.