Please tell me that people are ditching the networks as sources

[Smarmie Doofus]

of news. I include the cable outfits here.

What are the stats? I know the broadcast networks have been losing ground to the cables; but are both losing ground to the internet?

Is there a site or other source of info on this?

And what about newspaper readership?

[Bouncy Ball]

1. God I hope so.

I stopped watching all of it on November 3 and I wasn't much of a consumer of TV news anyway. We cut off our satellite service and I sent emails to ALL the major networks and our satellite provider, letting them know exactly why we did it.

I encourage ALL Kerry voters to do the same thing. If only 1% of Kerry voters turn off their cable or satellite service in protest of the election, we will send a HUGE message they cannot possibly miss. (That would be approximately 590,000 lost customers, NOT a small number!)

[Ilsa]

2. I know of more and more people that are switching to other

sources, but they are few and far between. They watch alot of network TV, period.

[0007]

3. Watching a football game tonight on ESPN and guess what?

CNN had an advertisement. Must be getting hard up for viewers.

[NAO]

4. Nope, not the masses.

Yes, extremists on both the left & right have ditched the media. The folks here at DU. The freepers. We know the MSM is crap.

But the masses - they are still eating it up - CNN, MSNBC, FOX - what they show is reality for the masses. What they don't show does not exist. They are hard at work "manufacturing consent".

People refuse to believe news that is on the Internet, but not on the TV news networks, because "if it were really true, it would be on the news".

[dannynyc]

5. Unfortunately, I don't remember the source . . .

but I did read the results of a survey that stated the internet is increasing as a source of news for people. IIRC, 11% of the respondents mentioned using the internet for their source of news. Although the number is small, it was the only news source (as compared to newspapers, broadcast TV, cable TV) that had an increase in their audience.

[euler]

6. I get 70% of my news from blogs.

My blog time is spent like this:

For politics:
1/3 if my browse time on liberal blogs
1/3 if my browse time on moderate blogs
1/3 if my browse time on conservative blogs

For distastes and other current events such as crime and environment, I consult (in time order) Fox, CNN and MSNBC. I almost never watch CBS, NBC and ABC or their web sites.

[unkachuck]

7. I've convinced....

....most of my family members to at least consider the 'internet' as a supplemental and/or alternative source of news....many do and will exchange links with me, while the more conservative members won't....I think they like their news filtered and sanitized for their protection....facts can become awful messy sometimes.... :)

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

8. Newspapers.

I've gone almost exclusively to reading articles in newspapers that I can get online. Whether they be linked from blogs, DU, stupid Drudge, whatever. I feel a lot saner. Watching TV news makes me crazy these days.

[FloridaPat]

9. I get all my news off the internet, When I tell people where I get

my information, they laugh and say the internet's no good. If I quote the NYT from the newspaper, I'm a hero. But if I quote them off their web site I'm a nut. Amazing the number of people who jump down my throat when I say CNN is a government propaganda channel.

[Gloria]

10. Wasn't there a recent poll that said that Internet news only is growing

among the younger crowd??? (