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Toplines - News - September 15-16, 2010

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National Survey of 1,000 Adults
Conducted September 15-16, 2010

By Rasmussen Reports

 

1*   What is the best way to get news and information in today's world… the Internet, print newspapers, radio or television?

 

44% Internet
11% Print newspapers
  9% Radio
36% Television

 

2*   Which is a more reliable source of credible news information— newspapers, broadcast news or the Internet?

 

21% Newspapers

40% Broadcast news
29% The internet
10% Not sure

 

3*   Thinking about how aware you are now of the latest news and information versus 10 years ago, do you consider yourself more informed or less informed? Or is your level of knowledge about the same?

 

67% More informed
  8% Less informed
22% About the same

  3% Not sure

 

4*   If many newspapers go out of business, how confident are you that online and other news sources will make up the difference and report on things that people want to know about?

 

31% Very confident
30% Somewhat confident
29% Not very confident

  5% Not at all confident

  5% Not sure

 

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence