As Barack Obama marched towards the White House and the economy plunged, more Americans ditched newspapers for the internet.For the first time, more Americans are getting their news online than from traditional ink and paper, although the popularity of television still eclipses all other forms of media.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/27/us-media-internet-newspapers-televisionPrint news is fading, but the content lives on
It’s been about 20 years since Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web on the back of the Internet. For more than a billion people on the planet, the Web today is an alternate, digital universe that is gradually overtaking the analog, physical world as a source of information and connections.Earlier this month, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press conducted a survey that rendered two obvious conclusions: the Internet has overtaken newspapers as a source of national and international news, and television, led by CNN, continues to serve as the main source.
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Web overtakes newspapers as source of news in US survey
As Barack Obama marched towards the White House and the economy plunged, more Americans ditched newspapers for the internet.