Poll: How do you receive your news?

[scatman45]

I'm doing a little bit of research for a project in sociology class, and I'd like to see how the Escapist population (perhaps younger on average than the general population) compares to older sample groups. My project is on if paper-based news sources will eventually become obsolete due to the rise of digital news.

Edit: Added radio broadcast.

 

[Nova5]

I don't have a cable connection, so I just read the BBC's main page. And occasionally supplement that with the physical paper.

 

[Mr.Governor]

From other people

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

I don't actively seek it out but the internet usually tells me all that I need to know about the world.

 

[Snork Maiden]

Read TimesOnline normally. The quality is clearly shitty compared to the newspaper (both in proof-reading and how easy it is to get to the linked articles) but its free, y'know?

 

[Ophiuchus]

BBC News website. It's about the most balanced news source you'll find - no opinions or slant (unless you specifically click away onto one of the side stories), just the news as-is. Also, it's free, constantly updated and doesn't leave a pile of redundant paper sitting around in my room when I'm done with it.

 

[Explosm]

You cant not see a newsflash when your watching TV.

 

[Carbonic Penguin]

News? We don't have news anymore. We have a bunch of fluff pieces about dogs and a pile of celebrity gossip.

This about sums up the world's general priorities today... but I generally use the web and radio(put that in - radio)

Also, newspapers most likely will not become obsolete... how much easier is it to read a newspaper on a train than a sketchy connection with a laptop?

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

I never get any news unless it's posted on here. So I figure it's not important if it's not on here.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

I look at the covers of papers during my paper round, the telly is always on and there's just news on the Internet.

 

[Hippobatman]

I like to mix it up a bit.

TV, online and newspapers.

 

[scatman45]

I find it really interesting that no one in a sample size of thirty Escapists reads only the newspaper. I did a survey of the faculty at my school and found ~25% of professors read ONLY newspapers. Several even suggested that they trust printed news more than online sources, but is that really true? I think printed news can be just as biased as digital news.

 

[Dorian]

Primarily?
The Escapist and the such, which goes under the online category.

Anything else is a mixture of TV, radio, and word-of-mouth.

 

[DuplicateValue]

Does the "Don't care" option cover the fact that I don't get my news from anywhere? I can't be bothered.

I tend to find out about stuff weeks after everybody else.

 

[Pyotr Romanov]

Important things usually have threads here, so...
Oh, and some stuff from classmates who acntually do care.

 

[Biek]

Free papers during lunch one of my colleagues brings from the train station.

 

[Sassafrass]

Through my eyes.

OT: Escapist, papers, radio when they stop playing rubbish music and TV.