From today's NYTimes, this headline caught my eye: Most Online News Readers use 5 Sites or Fewer, Study Says. The story is a brief report on a new Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism.
This paragraph interested me:
In the Pew survey, just 7 percent of people said they would be willing to pay for access to any news site. And even among the people who are most loyal to a single site, only 19 percent said they would pay, rather than seek free news somewhere else.I'm interested in the idea about the proposition of asking people whether they're willing to pay for something they're getting for free. But the other thing that interested me was something that didn't appear in the online version of the story:
But 57 percent of the audience relies on just two to five sites. The findings parallel studies that say that people with hundreds of television channels tend to stick to a relative handful.
This is a link to the Pew Study.
There are a lot of different angles on this story that interest me.
People with hundreds of television channels tend to watch only a handful, which riles me because I can't buy my Comcast al a carte.
How does the USA compare to the UK where some people read three or more newspapers a day.
Isn't is a good thing that people are getting news from more different sources. When I think about myself, an how I have such a limited news diet of just the the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. (Okay, and more than a few blog, lots of radio, and just a few television shows.
