Deceptive headline. Second sentence of the article:
Two in 10, or 18%, report getting news that way often.
So it sounds like the headline statistic includes anyone who has read even a single news story they found on social media. That's totally different than what's implied.
So do many journalists. In some fields, news stories seem to be almost exclusively based on Tweets, forum posts, Reddit posts and Youtube videos.
I personally still check some news sites from time to time, but yes, the majority of my news comes from social media sites and internet communities now.
I exclusively get my news from social media - most notably HN and Reddit, also facebook and Twitter. Occasionally a BBC breaking news thing will happen on my phone which would be the only times I don't get my news from social media.
With tradition news sources you often know the bias of the source in advance. When reading some seemingly informed comment on Facebook/Reddit you don't know who the entity behind that comment really is.
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Deceptive headline. Second sentence of the article:
So it sounds like the headline statistic includes anyone who has read even a single news story they found on social media. That's totally different than what's implied.
So do many journalists. In some fields, news stories seem to be almost exclusively based on Tweets, forum posts, Reddit posts and Youtube videos.
I personally still check some news sites from time to time, but yes, the majority of my news comes from social media sites and internet communities now.
I exclusively get my news from social media - most notably HN and Reddit, also facebook and Twitter. Occasionally a BBC breaking news thing will happen on my phone which would be the only times I don't get my news from social media.
With tradition news sources you often know the bias of the source in advance. When reading some seemingly informed comment on Facebook/Reddit you don't know who the entity behind that comment really is.