The only people that I know of that still get the majority of their news from TV is people of my parents generation, who are in their 70s. I’m in my 50s and none of my acquaintances of a similar age watch broadcast TV, or even use social media.
I’m in my 50s and none of my acquaintances of a similar age watch broadcast TV, or even use social media.
It doesn't matter if they're instead binging tv shows on streaming platforms produced by production studios owned by those 6 companies. In fact, it doesn't even matter if they are binging youtube channels or tiktok "influencers", all of which are seemingly independent, but are in fact being funded by new media studios owned by those 6 companies.
Those companies control a lot more than you think. The fact that people are unaware of it is a feature of that control, not a bug.
In the most recent Pew survey on media habits, TV was still far and away the leading source of news. For people who prefer to use a computer, tablet or phone to read the news, the websites of traditional media companies was their preference. Nothing else even approaches the popularity of traditional news orgs. And for people who do get news from social media, Facebook is the most popular source by a large margin.
So you may not know any TV watchers outside of your parents (which is also true for me), there are somehow millions and millions of TV news watchers out there.
Suppose I watch Fox News for an hour and then read Reddit for an hour (either posts, linked articles, or comments, your choice). How is that counted? I am reading 5-10x as much content on Reddit as I am seeing/hearing on TV.
Not sure but when asked which medium they preferred, respondents ranked all social media (including Reddit) a distant fourth. Among social media sites Reddit was 5th, behind Instagram, in terms of how many people said they used it specifically for news. This particular survey does not seem to ask about time spent.
