It's a common belief that today's kids consume media differently, getting their news from unusual sources, like "The Daily Show" and blogs. Not so. It turns out that teens and young adults are much
like adults in regard to how and where they get their news--and much of it comes from local TV, according to a recent poll by the
Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg. Younger folks see local TV as
the best source of news; the Web comes in second. "We kind of expected the Internet to show up higher," says Jill Darling Richardson, deputy director of
Los Angeles Times polls. "We are
affected like everyone else by the zeitgeist."
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