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Online Will Overtake Television News Within Five Years
Research from news consumers in seven countries predicts that online news and information sources will overtake TV newscasts within five years. Even today, many people believe it’s already easier to get news online than to read a newspaper.
The data came from a Harris Interactive poll on newspapers and online sites and was released last week at the World Association of Newspapers conference in Cape Town, South Africa. The research came from a poll of 8749 adults taken last month in seven countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Germany and Australia.
While television news programs on broadcast and cable networks are the primary information providers today in all the regions polled, a sharp increase in the role of online news information is predicted for five years down the road, largely at the expense of television, with smaller inroads into the market for newspapers.
Despite the likely decline in print circulation, newspaper publishers should see a challenge and an opportunity in extending their brands online, according to Douglas S. Griffen, a Harris consultant who presented the research results.
Looking five years down the road, the poll points to significant increases in all geographies for online news and information, and significant parallel losses for television network news, with modest increases for cable news, and newspapers down from moderately to significantly in all countries surveyed. Radio remains relevant, with moderate decreases.
Consumers said the top three things editors can do to make their services more attractive are to cover more local news and information, improve journalistic quality and provide more in-depth analysis of world events.
Many consumers claimed today’s news has too biased or narrow a viewpoint, and suffers in the quality of writing and analysis.
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35 Responses to “Online Will Overtake Television News Within Five Years”
Posted on 12 Jun 2007 at 2:22 am by scott carriere
I would say it already has taken over; At least in the US. We don’t get “real” news any more. The only place to get the real reporting and;the hole story, is on line.
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Posted on 12 Jun 2007 at 2:28 am by Rick
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Posted on 12 Jun 2007 at 2:46 am by Ivan A. D'Mocracy
We can only hope! But still the news from the latest telecom industry meetings is chilling (i.e. desiring to modify who controls what goes over those “tubes” called the Internet — that pesky net neutrality issue).
Not to mentions the recent PBS report that pretty much all old-fashioned, traditional media is now owned by five companies - yes FIVE!)
I did find it interesting that this report did not study any country in Asia or Africa. I assume that there are many countries that already DO get most valuable news from the Internet (at least Asia).
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Posted on 12 Jun 2007 at 3:35 am by monty burns
I got rid of my TV a year ago this month, and I can find any news I want on the web with a few annoying commercials instead of tons of annoying commercials.
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Posted on 12 Jun 2007 at 3:45 am by Josh D.
I think newspapers could have held their own if they had given it a good effort. But it’s always been the hallmark of the best newspapers to put good journalism over good business practice. Which is why they’re going under. I don’t believe one bit that it has to do with the rise of online news.
A newspaper’s best bet is to go as local as possible. It’s an area Internet really hasn’t tapped yet.
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Posted on 12 Jun 2007 at 3:56 am by squiddy
Previously I needed the double-check of BBC.com to tell me what was going on here in the US. Now I honestly don’t bother with any major US news outlet for my news because I simply don’t trust their motives anymore. Sad to say, but credibility capital is no longer something any of them can bank on, and they only have themselves to blame.
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Posted on 12 Jun 2007 at 7:32 am by fuddled
squiddy, read the early history of the BBC and its recent lawsuits, and you’ll have to rethink your unguarded trust of the BBC. Most news is too important to be “seen” or “heard”. When humans read, they tend to think about the information and its source. Broadcast tv is a great medium reporting fires, disasters, live reporting of wars and other emergency type events. It’s a terrible medium to learn the pros and cons of a government’s policy.
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Posted on 12 Jun 2007 at 10:29 am by tom west
I have read about the demise of TV news for years. Online will not be a viable source for all news. If newspapers and TV news disappear, where will online news come from? As it is, it is just a regurgitation of legitimate news sources. Online is convenient, but there isn’t enough money to generate an actual newscast.
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Posted on 12 Jun 2007 at 12:06 pm by DrChrisHE
For those of us working abroad (as US citizens) the NET is THE way to go. Within a very short period of time, I can see news from the most progressive and comprehensive sources DIRECTLY–as opposed to being filterer through the supposedly free US media. Having lived abroad during other time periods, I can definitely attest to the fact that no matter what the US public believes, information reaches the US SLOWER than in Europe, Latin America and many other parts of the world. I currently am living and working in a developing country and frequently email my well read and informed friends in the US about an issue, which they only hear about days or weeks (if at all) after I’ve emailed. WIth the exception of a few select programs (most of which I now get online) such as the DAILY SHOW, I haven’t missed my TV in over a year of being without it. TV news? Well, for a great commentary on THAT, see Samantha Bee’s commentary from Comedy Central on News I’d Like to to F$#*K. It is hilarious. TV news is NOT informative….it is pablumized goo for the masses to open and have poured in for instant placation.
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Posted on 12 Jun 2007 at 1:52 pm by Nancy
Yes, I hardly ever watch t.v. anymore. Too many news channels work for the crooks in power, too much propaganda spin in news, and most progamming is now geared to the very young and lousy veiwing in my opinion. As for the newspapers, the major one here in Okc has always been run by the Gaylord family who has been waging war on working class citizens as long as it’s been in business and is only good to line the bottom of a bird-cage with. Recently they tried to give away a free copy at my local grocery store, and as far as I could see while there, is that they couldn’t even give it away. You should only read this paper if u want to be depressed. The internet is better and you can respond and ask questions. America has long needed interactive news. YAY! For internet!
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Posted on 12 Jun 2007 at 2:06 pm by RickinSF
This is the real reason to fight for net neutrality.
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Posted on 12 Jun 2007 at 9:19 pm by Maxbaer
Didn’t realize there were so many fellow freaks without tv’s. Ditched mine 2 years ago and haven’t missed it a bit (or the cable bills). The interaction and sheer magnitude of the web blows away the passive medium of television.
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Posted on 13 Jun 2007 at 12:06 pm by belle
I’m fellow tv-less freak: haven’t had one for over five years and keep very well informed from a combination of independent public radio, internet and yes, the NY Times, which, while certainly slanted and biased, still has some good reporting and is anyway worth reading to glean between the lines what’s really up. The top newstories in the NY times are usually buried somewhere on page A17 or so.
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The Zionofascists own the media and are using it to rally Canada and the world to genocide against the Iranian people based on lies and false attributed quotes. THis is why Jews were run out of countries in the past, evil wretched disgusting behaviour.
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