Questions - Newspapers and Internet - May 12-13, 2011
33% Say Internet Good for American Culture
Americans Still See Local Newspaper Reporting As a Bit More Reliable Than Internet Sources
Just 27% Regularly Buy Print Version of Newspapers
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National Survey of
1,000 Adults
Conducted May 12-13, 2011
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
