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Slow Death of the News Habit?
It's no surprise to anybody that the younger generations are pretty much ditching newspapers and network TV news. But one of the general beliefs has been that those citizens ingest as much news as any previous generation -- they just get it from Web sites. (Well, or from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, which is a little frightening.)
A new report out of Harvard, "Young People and News," paints a different picture. The researchers studied the news consumption habits of different generations. It found that all kinds of changing dynamics in American life have led to a profound change: the increasing absence of a news habit in younger generations. Young folks may be able to find all the news they want on the Net -- but they may not care to. And as the study concludes: What is unclear about the Internet is its capacity to create a daily news habit for those without one."
We'd love some input about what this means to the media and society.
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