Alternative News Is Good News

An AP article at Yahoo!News has a poll showing more people seeking alternative news sources and abandoning the traditional outlets.

Young adults were leading the shift, with one-fifth of them considering the Internet a top source of campaign news for them, said the poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. About the same number of young adults said they regularly learn about the campaign from comedy shows like “The Daily Show” and “Saturday Night Live.”

That sounds bad at first glance, but I’d rather people get campaign updates from Jon Stewart than Bill O’Reilly.

Nightly network news was named as a regular source of campaign news by 35 percent, down from 45 percent four years ago, and newspapers by 31 percent, down from 40 percent.

Maybe one of the news channels will revert to honest fair and balanced news in an effort to retain viewers. …It could happen!

Posted by etrigan at January 12, 2004 3:03 PM