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But does your average person use more than six sources for news? You'll hear people talk about CNN, MSNBC, nyt, wsj, maybe la times. Most people also have three
by chrismcb 5y ago
But does your average person use more than six sources for news? You'll hear people talk about CNN, MSNBC, nyt, wsj, maybe la times. Most people also have three or four local news and maybe a paper.
If you stick with main stream media, I don't think most people look to more than a handful of places.
- harry8 5y agoWSJ is fox. Edit: As in owned by Rupert Murdoch who also owns Fox. "is" for the purposes of number of corps who control media. Murdoch is the poster child for influencing media he owns to get deals out of politicians generating outsized returns. For masthead newspapers they don't even need to make a profit. I believe the Australian newspaper never has in decades of history while Murdoch made a ton of money in Australia. It seems Bezos watched, learned and bought the wapo.
- rgbrenner 5y agoFor 2018, 20% of people regularly got their news from social media.[0] That number has increased. Maybe the claim was true in like the 90s... but it's certainly not true anymore and the article is irresponsible for repeating out of date information. 0. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/12/10/social-media-outpaces-print-newspapers-in-the-u-s-as-a-news-source/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/12/10/social-medi...
- wombatmobile 5y ago> But does your average person use more than six sources for news? The average person might rely on 2 or 3 sources of news. But it's a different world when they have to choose those sources from 6 that are running the same line, compared to a world in which hundreds of diverse viewpoints are ready and waiting to shine a light on any issue.