A new poll shows the Internet is close to equaling newspapers as the place Alabamians get their news. The Ask Alabama news release is here. It shows that despite that increase, TV is still king when it comes to being a news source. 1% of Alabamians tell the pollsters they get most of their news from friends and neighbors. Ask Alabama is a quarterly project of the Auburn University Center for Governmental Research.
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Sep 1, 2009
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A new poll shows the Internet is close to equaling newspapers as the place Alabamians get their news. The Ask Alabama news release is here. It shows that despite that increase, TV is still king when it comes to being a news source. 1% of Alabamians tell the pollsters they get most of their news from friends and neighbors. Ask Alabama is a quarterly project of the Auburn University Center for Governmental Research.
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For quite some time, I have decided to obtain my news from online sources rather than teevee.
ReplyDeleteFirst, I don't need a talking head with a 30-second sound bite and absolutely rotten videography attempting to tell a story with equally poor headlines. Not developing the story, but the repetitive use of headline use as a method of story telling.
Secondarily, I utterly despise advertising (except those wonderful Apple Computer ads! *LOL* They ARE so true, you know!).
And Tim, that's one reason (okay... TWO) we were absolute devotees of For The Record, Alabama's ONLY state-wide news program. Talk about a corner on the news market! Whew! Nobody's doing it STILL!
Something's gotta' fill that vacuum. And as it turns out, the sucking sound Alan Pizzato created still sucks. What an utterly STOOPID thing to do! Yeah... that's idiot executives for ya'.
I never lost an opportunity to get others' eyes on the (your) show. Once they started watching, rarely were they disappointed.
Alabama Public Television's loss is Montgomery's gain.
From my observation and my opinion, people want more than talking heads with marshmallow fluff. And don't think it doesn't affect cable news either, because it definitely does!