Getting News From Social Media Outpaces Print, Consumption Trends Even Impact TV
- by Gavin O'Malley @mp_gavin, December 10, 2018
About one-fifth of U.S. adults currently get their news fix from social media, according to the latest findings from the Pew Research Center.
That’s slightly higher than the 16% of people who get their news from print papers, which represents a shift from 2017 when about the same share of …
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The basic problem with these Pew studies is their lack of definition of what constitutes "news". They should have asked about varying types of news or subject matter---like sports news, entertainment news, news about international events, news about national politics, local community news, etc. but as this mistake---in my opinion----was made at the outset all we are seeing is a series of updates using very ill-defined, highly subjective, characterizations of "news" as the basis for plotting supposed trends. Too bad.
Also, as the Council for Research Excellence observational study showed ten years ago, consumers tend to overstate their consumption of new and trendy sources and understate their use of "traditional" media. A major problem with recall studies. Too bad that groundbreaking study isn't being repeated today.