Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: A reality check for online news

Fascinating reality check -- read the full post 

The idea that we're in the midst of a dramatic shift away from traditional print and broadcast news media and toward online news media has become a commonplace, particularly in web circles. Newspapers, it's widely assumed, are doomed to fade away because the young prefer getting their news from the Internet. Our Resident Philistine rehearsed this theme over the weekend, when he argued that the audience for newspapers, like the audience for Woody Allen movies, "is dying off."

But there's a little problem with this idea: It's not true. Yesterday, the Pew Center for the People and the Press released its latest study of "news consumption" in the United States. It makes for fascinating reading. The picture it paints of the role of online news media is not at all like it's been made out to be by web pundits.

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