National poll: Newspapers still providing critical local coverage

A study by Pew Research revealed that Americans still rely on newspapers for local coverage of crime, community events, housing, jobs, schools and government. They turn to TV for weather, breaking news and traffic and the Internet for restaurants, night life and local businesses. -db From a commentary for The Poynter Institute, September 26, 2011, [...]

Growing trend?: Senate candidate in Nevada dodges reporters

With talk radio and Facebook, political candidates no longer have to rely on television to get their message across. -db The New York Times June 28, 2010 By Brian Stelter RENO — There is a game in Nevada called “Where’s Sharron Angle?” that the press is tired of playing. Ms. Angle, a Nevada Senate candidate [...]

Survey shows online news supplanting print media as third most popular news venue

A survey by the Pew Research Center showed that 61 percent of readers get news online compared to 50 percent who regularly read newspapers. Seventy-eight perent view local news channels and 71 percent get news from national TV networks. -db BBC News March 1, 2010 Online news has become more popular than reading newspapers in the [...]

Written word alive and well

A study done by the University of San Diego and other universities revealed that Americans are reading far more words as the new technologies take hold. With the advent of TV, reading was in decline but has rebounded, tripling from 1980 to 2008. -DB Wired Commentary December 29, 2009 By Eliot Van Buskirk Conventional wisdom [...]