No News Is Bad News
US Government and Politics
What % of 18-29 year old Americans get their news from print newspaper?
How accurate was your prediction?
What most surprised you about this data?
What is the big story this data tells?
Describe one trend you see in the data.
Describe one consequence of this trend.
Where do you get your news?
50% of 18-29 year-olds get their news online. If you had to guess what percentage of under 18s get their news online, what would it be?
How much longer do you think television will be the most popular news medium?
Describe one effect of the internet on the news.
How different do you think this data would have been 20 years ago, and how different will this data be in 20 years?
How do you think this information affected the 2016 presidential election?
Explain whether this is generally good or bad news.
I hear a lot of people decrying the end of print journalism. Discuss what we as a society will lose if print journalism dies.
Marshal McLuhan famously wrote that, "The medium is the message". What do you think that means and how does this relate to the data in these charts?
Radio hurt newspapers, television hurt radio (video killed the radio star), now online is hurting television. If you were the publisher of a print newspaper what steps would you take to deal with the decline of newspaper readership?
My grandparents grew up during the very beginning of radio, my parents grew up during the advent of television, and I grew up during the birth of the internet. What is the next step, what is sort of media platform is being born during your generation?
