Poll: Most View Internet As Most Reliable News Source

A new Zogby poll indicates that most Americans consider the Internet to be the most reliable news source.

• 40% of adults rank the Internet as the most reliable news source
• 17% said TV
• 16% said newspapers
• 13% said radio

Many of the poll respondents still consider newspapers a reliable source of information, but are receiving their news from on-line newspaper websites.  My guess is that this trend will continue.

Delivering newspapers is manpower intensive, leaves a large carbon footprint, and is slow, compared to posting information on-line.  The future will be more electronic delivery of news.  With smart phones, Kindles and other wireless readers, laptops, and more broadband access, it seems only natural to get news this way.

Only 0.5% of those polled said newspapers would be their main source of information in five years.

Newspapers are not dying, but newsprint is.

Reference:

Reuters article: Internet most popular information source: poll