How and from where do we get our news? The Pew Research Center just released a new study on the news preferences of the American public. The findings make for unsurprising reading, but as I read, I began to think about the study itself.
But what is news?
The result is a certain credulity.
The Pew report tells us that when people get news online their most common way of responding to it is to have a conversation. Thirty percent of the time that’s what Pew’s sample audience did, while 17 percent of time they responded by searching for more information. Just 5 percent of the time their reaction was to e-mail or text someone with the news.
