By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog
This won’t come as a surprise to you since you’re reading this blog, Save Jerseyans, but the Internet is quickly overtaking television and print as Garden State residents’ primary source for state news.
Only 34% cite television as their main news source according to a new Monmouth University poll. 28% says it’s the Internet, and just 27% says it’s newspapers. Radio is a distant fourth at 6%. And as you might expect, young residents are leading this transformation:
Among New Jerseyans who are 18 to 34 years old, the internet is now the primary source of news about the state – named by 45% in the current poll, up from 33% in 2009. Younger adults’ reliance on both television (28%) and newspapers (17%) has dropped by 5 to 6 percentage points during the same time period. Garden State residents age 35 to 54 are split between television (34%) and the internet (32%) as their primary source of New Jersey political information, with newspapers (21%) following behind. In three years, preference for using the internet by those aged 35 to 54 has jumped by 13 points from 19% in 2009, while reliance on television and newspapers has dropped by 5 to 6 percentage points.”
Click here to read the full report from Monmouth Polling Institute.
