{"id":821,"date":"2008-03-04T14:20:35","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T22:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=821"},"modified":"2008-03-04T14:20:35","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T22:20:35","slug":"the-internet-vs-traditional-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"The Internet vs. Traditional Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zogby.com\/news\/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1454\" target=\"_blank\">new Zogby poll<\/a> on the nation&#8217;s attitudes toward Internet vs. traditional journalism. Some highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<\/li>\n<li>67% believe traditional journalism is out of touch with what Americans want from their news.<\/li>\n<li>32% said Internet sites are their most trusted source for news and information, followed by newspapers (22%), television (21%) and radio (15%).<\/li>\n<li>75% believe the Internet has had a positive impact on the overall quality of journalism.<\/li>\n<li>69% believe media companies are becoming too large and powerful to allow for competition.<\/li>\n<li>Republicans (79%) and political independents (75%) are most likely to feel disenchanted with conventional journalism, but the online survey found 50% of Democrats also expressed similar concerns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I still don&#8217;t understand that last item. A Gallup poll last October found similarly that 66% Democrats trust the media. I wrote at the time that it made no sense to do so and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=635\" target=\"_blank\">itemized the reasons why<\/a>. If Democrats were paying attention, they would be far more disenchanted with the media status quo than this survey suggests. However, it is heartening to see that 69% recognize the threat that Big Media represents. If there were a more concerted effort on the part of our elected officials to address the issue, they would find a grateful constituency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new Zogby poll on the nation&#8217;s attitudes toward Internet vs. traditional journalism. Some highlights: 67% believe traditional journalism is out of touch with what Americans want from their news. 32% said Internet sites are their most trusted source for news and information, followed by newspapers (22%), television (21%) and radio (15%). 75% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-media","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-df","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":353,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=353","url_meta":{"origin":821,"position":0},"title":"Blogs And The Future Of Journalism","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/17\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"A new WE Media\/Zogby Interactive poll surveyed members of the public and the media for their views on contemporary journalism. 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