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 Internet Overtakes Newspapers as Top News Source web posted December 29, 2008 WEBNEWS – The internet has surpassed newspapers for those seeking news a recent survey has found. Forty percent of those questioned said the internet is where they turn for news compared to thirty-five percent who cited newspapers. Television remained number one with seventy percent, down from eighty-two percent in 2002. According to the survey conducted by Pew Research Center for the People and the Press and released on Dec. 23, internet readership for news jumped sixteen percent since last year. Readership for newspapers have seen a steady decline in recent years dropping from fifty percent in 2003 to a low of thirty-four percent in 2007 and gaining only one point to thirty-five percent in 2008.  Among young readers,
ages 18-29, internet news rivals television with
both showing fifty-nine percent. Internet gained twenty-five percent
with young adults as television dropped eleven percent in the last year.EdgefieldDaily.com founder Roy Blackwell said he was not surprised at the latest figures. “Internet news sites are gaining readership at an astounding rate. As the government pushes for greater accessibility to broadband internet, and more homes are connected, we expect to see the numbers grow significantly over the next few years.” EdgefieldDaily.com has seen similar growth from a few hundred thousand hits per month in 2005 to one and a half million per month in 2008, and growing. “Internet news sites can respond with immediate coverage of a breaking news story,” Blackwell said, “With newspapers, readers have to wait for the next publication to become informed.” In Edgefield County the impact of that lag time is greater as the two local papers publish once a week. “By the time the local newspapers can go to press with a breaking story it is old news for EdgefieldDaily.com’s readers,” Blackwell said adding that, “It’s apples to oranges to compare EdgefieldDaily.com and the local papers. We are in two different markets. It is the same as comparing the local papers to local television news.” Although the local papers do publish web sites with some of their weekly content they cannot compete in EdgefieldDaily.com’s market Mr. Blackwell said. “They’re still a weekly newspaper and they rely on sales of the printed paper to survive. They’re not going to put their content online for free until the paper has run its course for at least a day or two. We do it daily, and faster with a major breaking news story, and it is free to our readers.” The most recent survey was conducted December 19-22 from a nationally representative sample of 1,013 adults. ©
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