Questions - Newspapers and Internet - April 27-28, 2012
National Survey of 1,000 Adults
Conducted April 27-28, 2012
By Rasmussen Reports
1* How often do you buy a print version of your local
newspaper – rarely or never, once a week or less, several times a week, every
day or nearly every day?
2* Which do you prefer—reading a printed version of the
newspaper or reading an online version of the newspaper?
3* How
often do you go online and use the Internet- rarely or never, once a week or
less, several times a week, every day or nearly every day?
4* How
reliable is the reporting from your local newspaper?
5* How
reliable in the reporting from Internet news sources?
6* 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?
7* Has the Internet’s impact on journalism been good for the
nation, bad for the nation or neither?
8* Has the Internet’s impact on American culture been good for
the nation, bad for the nation or neither?
9* Has the Internet’s impact on American politics been good for
the nation, bad for the nation or neither?
NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence