Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Jon Stewart: Tearing young people from newspapers?

WP reporting:
...Gallup yesterday released the results of a poll on the confidence of United Statesians in their media organizations. Overall, the findings are good, with a slight uptick in confidence levels for both TV news and newspapers.
But.
Check out the figures for the all-too-crucial 18-29-year-old demographic. These young adults have lost a frightening amount of confidence in newspapers---from 49 percent to 39 percent---while gaining a frightening amount of confidence in TV news---24 percent to 34 percent.
So we put the facts on Twitter and polled folks for explanations. Some highlights:...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/jon-stewart-tearing-young-people-from-newspapers/2011/06/28/AGCJFUpH_blog.html

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