More people now get their news from the Internet than from newspapers, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press reports. The percentage of people who say they get most of their international and national news from TV has been dropping slowly.
But the vast majority of Americans (71 percent) continue to cite television as their source for most national and international news, and there is yet no dramatic shift on the order of what has happened to newspapers.
Not many would bet against that state of affairs continuing forever. The bigger question seems to be over timing: How long will it be before something like the 2005 inflection point for newspapers occurs?
The newspaper experience suggests the change, whenever it happens, will be abrupt. There seems to have been some significant shift of user behavior around 2005 that caused an sudden shift in market share for newspapers.
Since 1999, the percentage of people who report getting their international and national news from television has fallen from about 82 percent to 71 percent.
What the chart does not capture is the shift of TV news from "broadcast" to "cable news," though.
While 42 percent of Americans rely on the internet for national and international news, just 17 percent say the Internet is their main source of local news. Americans are about equally likely to say radio is their main source for national and international news (21 percent) and local news (18 percent).
While 70 percent of those younger than 30 say they get most of their national and international news from television, nearly as many (64 percent) point to the Internet. Among those ages 30 to 49 a similar pattern is evident; 62 percent get most national and international news from television, while 54 percent cite the Internet.
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