Newspapers now the least popular medium for news (UK)

[T_i_B]

Hardly a surprise given how shite the newspapers are here in Britain

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/16/newspapers-now-the-least-popular-medium-for-news-says-ofcom-study?CMP=share_btn_tw

Newspapers have become the least popular medium people use to keep up to date with news and current affairs, according to new research from Ofcom.

Ofcom’s annual news consumption study found that 31% of the population read a printed newspaper to keep informed, a significant fall from the 41% who said the same thing last year.

The sharp fall means that printed newspapers are now the least popular medium for checking news, behind radio (32%), the internet (41%) and television (67%).

While television remains by some distance the most popular medium, it too saw a significant fall from 75% last year to 67% in the current report.

[EL34x4]

1. It has nothing to do with quality.

Print media is losing ground across the board.

[T_i_B]

2. That's the main reason I've stopped buying newspapers

It's not good at all when you walk into a newsagents and you've got the same shrill right wing propaganda plastered over all the rags. Newspapers have become worse and worse for those of us wanting to find out facts about what's happening in the world.

[LeftishBrit]

3. Not surprising...

Firstly, assuming that you're already paying for a TV license and internet access, getting the news does not cost you extra by these routes, whereas buying a paper does; and secondly most British newspapers are rubbish!

[madokie]

4. We have the daily paper delivered, Tulsa world

as well as the thrice weekly published one. For local news only though

[meow2u3]

5. Newspapers aren't that much better here in the States

Our corporate-owned newspapers are shitty too.

[pintobean]

6. You're quoting The Guardian, a British newspaper

People who get their news on the internet are still using the newspapers' websites. Print editions are the least popular medium because they're bulky and inconvenient. I still read my local paper, I just do it on my phone or laptop.

[T_i_B]

7. Grauniad isn't as large as that these days

The Grauniad's big problem at the moment is that it's taken pretty much the opposite side to most of it's readers in the ongoing civil war engulfing The Labour Party http://www.democraticunderground.com/10888551