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By Paul Biba

logo.gifFor the first time, more Americans are getting their news online than from traditional ink and paper, although the popularity of television still eclipses all other forms of media.

In an apparently sharp shift in habits, the Washington-based Pew Research Centre found that the number of consumers using the web as a main news source surged from 24% to 40% in a year, overtaking the 35% who rely on newspapers. Television slipped from 74% to 70%.

Younger people are migrating towards the web quickly. Among the under-29s, the web leaped from 34% to 59% as the leading source of news, tying with television, with newspapers lagging at 28%.

The above from The Guardian. When I come across a story such as this I check a number of sources before I decide which version to take a quote from. If The Guardian has a version of the story I find that I almost always prefer The Guardian’s version to any other. Of course my doing this proves the outcome of the study, because I’m getting this news online, not from a hard copy newspaper.

Do you know what killed my hard copy newspaper reading? Mandatory recycling. It is just too much trouble to bundle them up and take them out to the curb. For us non-city readers I wonder how much recycling has contributed to the newspaper’s demise.

 
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