> Americans spend an average of 12 and a half hours per day consuming news via the television, Internet, newspapers, magazines, and radio.
This just doesn't make sense. The average American spends the majority of waking hours consuming news?
This just doesn't make sense. The average American spends the majority of waking hours consuming news?
> included are digital (online on desktop and laptop computers, mobile nonvoice and other connected devices), TV, radio, print (offline reading only), newspapers, magazines, radio, and television
Pretty big blunder in an article about media trustworthiness if you ask me.
Seriously, leading off with a Brandeis quote comes across as so horrifically pretentious it hurts. That the next graf is about a crisp November day almost made me close the tab immediately, and I’ve read some really bad work. The TL;DR being that long and then the article starting like that is a big, neon sign upon which is written “I badly need an editor.” And this is part 1! The horror!
Another blunder: the duplicated scripts are because lazy local producers take fully-produced packages off their network sources to fill time. I know because I’ve done it. If I’m three minutes light in my B block, I’m looking at the network’s stuff or CNN or whatever to get what I can. Something on trade relations? Cool. Throw it in! It’s already done! (Sinclair must-runs use the same mechanism and are just pushed on producers.) It’s not a local news producer watching a competitor’s air and writing it down word for word, as she seems to think it is with her “hence” behind that YouTube embed. An interesting oddity of news, but not the malevolent machine she’s implying.
(Yes, I ended up reading the whole thing. It’s an interest area; I was a local news director in TV and an assignment editor before my start in tech. The author understands next to nothing about the incentives nor economics of particularly newsgathering. I’d rebut it but I’d run out of room here. Why it’s on HN is beyond me, since not even Good Housekeeping would pick this drivel up. She’s onto something of course, and it’s a subject that deserves better study than this.)
> In 2019, the average daily time spent with major media including television, newspapers, magazines, radio, and digital formats of each amounted to 750 minutes (12 hours and 30 minutes)
It's rather a bit inclusive that leads to a shock number.
This is beyond the time they spend watching TV and movies. I would say for 90% of the people I know, this number is accurate. If you point it out, it's as if you're telling someone they need to lose weight. It's just not allowed by anyone besides Grandma or Grandpa anymore.
Oh for sure that's true. Politics/news that shouldn't be interesting to anyone, yet is extremely important to follow. It's practically life/death reality here. You're right though, it doesn't make sense. You get a single vote every couple years at most and can do nothing otherwise. So why care so much, it doesn't make sense?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolution_Will_Not_Be_Tel...
Dave chappelle has some quotes.
"And you know what we have to do. This is a fuckin’ election year. We gotta be serious. Every able-bodied African-American must register for a legal firearm. That’s the only way they’ll change the law.”
“I’m clear that there’s no peaceful way to disarm America’s whites.”
“There’s only one thing that’s going to save this country from itself. Same thing that always saves this country from itself, and that is African Americans.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_police_reforms_related...
US Midterms are going to be extremely important for the USA if not the world.
I'm in political communications and am, in modern parlance, far Too Online. I definitely spend over 12 hours a day, and I'm one of the less engaged people in politics/civics fields that I've seen (depending on available time, of course).
Given people like us and the group of people that seems just plain ADDICTED to outrage bait/who hang out all day on Twitter, I think we might be skewing that number pretty drastically.
Either that or their definition of 'news' is wider than we'd expect and would include things like celebrity news. If we include keeping up with musicians/actors/Youtubers/etc. I wouldn't be shocked if that bumped up the numbers a lot.
HN and Reddit links out to other sites (BBC, Ars Technica, Science Direct, etc): is being on HN and Reddit classified as dealing with news, entertainment, other?
How many Twitter threads are about an article on CNN, Fox News, ESPN, etc? Is the ensuing discussion related to 'news' or something else?
I dont think most people can work all day while consuming media like i do though, so i suspect there is some populations segment with non normal media consumption habbits that has a outsized representation here most likely retirees that leave the tv on all day.
Clearly it is the youth (< 30 years old) in America who get hurt the most from this.