This is an interesting trend that is going to get more and more press as we go forward.
Despite the fact that there are now more ways to get news than ever before, there's still a lot of room for improvement in both the online and offline world. For one, a larger proportion of young people are paying no attention to the news in a typical day than ten years ago—34 percent now versus 25 percent in 1998. Pew notes that social networking sites are popular among kids these days, but fewer than 10 percent say that they get news from these sites.
You can see that these young people aren't connected to what is going on beyond their narrow world of Facebook and MySpace. This does not bode well for Americans unless these kids become more engaged. I wonder if they are paying no attention because they dislike how the news media is corrupt and biased? I think Pew should do another survey on that.
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