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Washington Examiner: Online news set to top TV next year, already has for under-50 crowd
Over just the last year, Americans have radically changed their media consuming habits, abandoning TV news in favor of online sources, a trend that could have the internet as the nation's No. 1 news provider in a year.
The latest Pew Research Center review of news consumption that showed a 19-point gap between TV news and online shrunk to just 7 points in the last year. Those "often" getting news from TV dropped from 57 percent last year to 50 percent this year, while online grew from 38 percent to 43 percent.
"The decline in television news use occurs across all three types of TV news asked about in the survey – local, network and cable – but is greatest for local television news," said Pew.
TV is already losing to online for everybody younger than 50.
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WNU Editor: In my case I get all of my news online. And as for this blog .... a sure sign (to me) on the growth of online news .... last month was the best month for web traffic, hitting 725,000 page views (according to Google). This month .... if trends continue .... WNU will be hitting almost 800,000 page views, and once I have finished updating the content and look of the site (which should be done this week), I am 100% sure that this traffic will be easily surpassing one million per month by Christmas.
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