NYT/AP: Young, educated, liberal turn to web for political news

[DeepModem Mom]

Candidates, Parties Target Web Audience
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 29, 2006
Filed at 9:12 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Increasing numbers of people looking for political news are going online -- with more than a third now saying they check the Internet for such information. That group is more likely to be younger, better educated and male than the population in general, an Associated Press-AOL News poll found.

While 35 percent say they go to the Internet for political updates about campaigns and candidates, that number grows to 43 percent of likely voters -- and they tend to be more liberal than conservative.

With midterm elections less than two weeks away, the online audience is getting deluged with e-mail and election updates from the news, campaign and political Web sites.

Those who use the Web point to the convenience, the wide variety of information and the range of intense emotion available.

The poll found that four in 10 men search the Web for political news compared to three in 10 women. About four in 10 of those under age 50 search the Web for political news, compared with fewer than two in 10 of those 65 and over. And more than half of those with college degrees look to the Web for politics, compared with a third of those who have some college and fewer than one in six with a high school education or less.

The most popular destinations are the news sites, with nine of 10 in the online political audience saying they go to news sites. Just over a third go to candidate's sites and almost half check out political sites....

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Web-Politics.html?_r=1&oref=login

[TomClash]

1. That means they're intelligent too nt

[neilepi]

2. Here's the scary quote

"While the online browsers go to a wide variety of sites, they overwhelmingly trust what they see on the news sites,"

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[hlthe2b]

4. That's what MSM certainly wants you to believe...

that somehow these same "intelligent" people can't learn to differentiate and thus adjust their "trust quotient" depending on the site, its policies regarding citations and documentations, and repeated reliability against any detectable "website-specific agendas."

God, I hate this patronizing bullshit...

[hlthe2b]

3. Why thank you, NYT...

I will take the compliment (younger, more intelligent--LOL)...

However, as so many on this and other progressive web forums and blogs know, I and so many many more may actually be FEMALE (my heavens, what will they demand next!) and BABY BOOMERS (how DID those oldsters learn about technology, gee whiz!).

But, they certainly got the more intelligent part, for progressive political web junkies as a whole! :toast: