Americans prefer to watch news rather than read or listen to it, and most have not moved to the Internet to watch news or listen to bulletins, according to a new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center.
The survey concluded that Americans prefer television as a basic news platform and pay little attention to reading.
In general, 34 percent of the research sample favors reading the news, 19 percent listening, while 47 percent say they prefer to watch the news instead of reading or listening to it. This has not changed in 46 percent since 2016.
The study measured people´s preferred platform for news from print and television (local or satellite channels), the Internet (news sites, applications or social media) or online radio.
The results of the survey shown that television is still ranked first as a favorite platform for Americans, although many websites are on video news delivery.
The vast majority of respondents (75 percent) prefer television as a means of watching, while 20 percent said they prefer the Internet.
The researchers said that television tops the media when it comes to watching, while the Internet advances when it comes to reading (reading news).
As for listening, the radio occupations the first place, followed by television and then websites finally.
The researchers said the situation has not changed since 2016, since the fact that the number of news sites dealing with instant news has multiplied in a more realistic way and is closer to the reader, viewer and listener.
The study also found that adults under the age of 50 are more likely to be Internet-centric than those over the age of 50, regardless of how the news is obtained (watching, listening, reading).
76 percent of those aged 18 to 49 prefer to read the news online, but researchers note that the proportion of those who prefer to see the news across sites has increased significantly since the last survey in 2016.
The findings come in the context of other research conducted by the Center on the growing reliance on the Internet for news.
The Center, which conducted the latest survey of news follow-ups, reported in September 2018 that there was only a 6 percentage point gap between those who say they often get news online and those who do it on television.
"Americans, especially older people, have a tendency to watch news and get it on television alone," the researchers say in their reading of their findings.
