More than 9-out-of-10 Americans get their news from multiple platforms – Internet, newspapers, TV, or cell phones, according a new Pew report. The deputy director for the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism says in a release, "Americans have become news grazers both on and offline – but within limits. They generally don't have one favorite Web site but also don't search aimlessly. Most online news consumers regularly draw on just a handful of different sites."
About 57 percent of people rely on two to five Web sites for news, and only 35 percent have a favorite, Pew found. About 59 percent get their news from a combination of offline and online sources. Only 7 percent use a single media platform, and those people are most likely to use the Internet or local TV news. About 33 percent of respondents said they access news on their cell phones.
About 72 percent of people said they read the news because they like talking about it with other people, while 69 percent said knowing what is going on in the world is a social or civic obligation.
A person's age, political party, and ideology all affected their personal preference for a particular online news source.
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