Study: Online users rely less on newspapers
According to the results, only 56 percent of those surveyed view print news as a valuable source of information. This was down from 60 percent when the survey was conducted in 2008. More people relied on the internet (78 percent) and television (68 percent) as their main news source.
The study found that only 56 percent of online users think newspapers as a valuable source of information, which decreased 4 percent since 2008.
More people, however, relied on the Web (78 percent) and TV (68 percent) as their main source for news.
When asked what they would do if the home newspaper folded and went online, only 59 percent of respondents said they would read it on online... for free, the Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity reported.
In addition, merely 29 percent of respondents viewed the newspaper as a source of entertainment, down from 32 percent two year ago.
The study also found that 49 percent of Internet population use Twitter. However, none of them would like to pay for that service.
According to Center of the Digital Future director Jeffrey I. Cole in a statement, "such an extreme finding that produced a zero response underscores the difficulty of getting Internet users to pay for anything that they already receive for free," TIME reported.
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