Where do Americans watch the news? The Internet is not the first Internet, television, newspapers-IT information
Technology development and change the shape of media industry model, so that "newspapers will die" or even "print is dead" news circles is often on the lips of the mantra, but the impact of the wave of new media to traditional media industry is beyond doubt. Despite the smell remains ink on paper feel nostalgic, but the overall situation seems to have been difficult to reverse.
According to the Atlantic Monthly (The Atlantic) reporting of How the Average American Gets Their News, Pew Research Center (Pew Research Center) released a report on July 7, The Modern News Consumer, analysis of the attitudes and practices of social news in the digital age. Report reveals the editing capabilities of Facebook News other factors that caused problems.
The end of June, Facebook announced new information supply model NewsFeed. Sea of information quantified limitation and personal reading, which first appeared on Facebook in 2006, which provide orientation information in connection with readers I, the new version of the model you can see know who published information, and user side of things are linked, and sequence information to make adjustments.
New Facebook NewsFeed would single out a user after logging in will give priority to watch 10 to 15 other users, and users who have a close relationship and the information in the first place, replacing the original agenda-setting information from the professional news media.
The initiative came from Facebook users do not care much about the reality of news, independent news information or unless they have a strong will to participate.
According to the Pew study, only a very small number of Americans will track up on the news. Even though most Americans get their news through social media, but they are less likely to "tell" Facebook requests to see more information.
81% of Americans are exposed to network news, but television is still the United States the most popular source of news, 57% United States adults "regular" watching the television news, this is due to the older generation is used to watching TV.
Over 70% over 50 years of Americans regularly watch TV news, less than 50% of the United States young people watching TV. Meanwhile, about 20 young people and college students, only about one-fourth is fixed to the television news audience, 50% are all fixed in such groups of online news consumers.
Of course, not everyone takes all Facebook features. For some Americans, they are more like the original NewsFeed, because you can see they are interested in news and reviews. But most people skip news, unless some news looks very interesting then it clicked.
See from the report and from the overall situation, TV is the first way to get news.
While the young ones of network users, but young has no interest in reading the news. Newspaper readers are mostly in older age groups over 65 years old, the younger group was not read media. However print media generally because the timing of precipitation and the traditional production process, has a higher degree of credibility.
According to the report the Atlantic Monthly Does Facebook Really Need Journalism?, a Pew Research Center survey United States degree of public confidence in the media, showed confidence in American media is very low.
But in fact, they generally via Facebook to get news and information, not authoritative professional news media.
News on Facebook with other information in the piece, cute baby photos, vulgar cynicism jealous ridicule of, a person's self and other, news is like a piece of food on the buffet, buried in a dazzling range of "food information", wait for someone to selectively independent catches.
Many users ignore the Facebook way into news portal, they are less likely to go to professional news media confirmed the authenticity and accuracy of the information. Facebook itself is not a news site, news publishers stop up your news, also has little effect on Facebook. But in the competitive world of journalism, Facebook as a means to release is necessary.
"The data show that the technology company news industry far beyond business and hit the core of journalism. Prior to the information era, news organizations control the full range of news and information products and services, including original reporting; published writing; editing choices; packaging, transport, and user experience. But over time, tech companies like Facebook and Apple began to replace, if the arena is not dominated by, the user will be according to their own preferences to filter to exclude the news product. "-Pew Research Center
In that sense, technology companies seem to attract audience attention and financial income was the winner, and severely beat the professional news media. In addition, users also tend to use their smart phones to read news on the mobile side. In order to gain more economic benefits to attract more readers in a short time, these sites started to become "headline" strange in the news headlines, undermining the objectivity pursued journalistic professionalism.
Although network covers an area so vast, large number of network users, but for Americans, especially the elderly, TV is the first source for important news. However, the universality of the Internet in modern society, and the irresponsible behavior of some new media, is also on the formation of professional news media to a certain extent of damage.
Although the report object is the United States, but the same situation today in China is not uncommon. The rapid pace of technology companies and multimedia presentation capabilities, people of divergent interests and more impatient "instant read" habits, various factors in which traditional news media's troubled situation, how to get rid of there are no clear answers.
美国人从哪里看新闻？互联网并非第一位 - 互联网,电视,报纸 - IT资讯
技术的发展进而改变了媒体行业的形态模式，使“纸媒将死”甚至“纸媒已死”成为新闻学界常挂在嘴边的口头禅，但新媒体风潮对传统媒体行业的冲击毋庸置疑。尽管有人还保留着对纸张上油墨字香味的眷念，但大局貌似已经难以扭转。
根据《大西洋月刊（The Atlantic）》的报道《How the Average American Gets Their News》，皮尤研究中心（Pew Research Center）在七月七日发布了一项报告The Modern News Consumer，分析数字时代下社会对于新闻的态度和实践。报告揭示了Facebook的编辑功能对新闻人造成困扰的其它因素。
六月底，Facebook宣布为用户提供新的信息供给模式NewsFeed。信息的海量化和个人阅读的有限性，让该模式于2006年首次出现在Facebook上，过去主要提供与读者本人有关的定向性新闻，新版本的模式则可以看到认识的人发布的信息，与用户身边的事物相互链接，并将信息序列做出调整。
Facebook新的NewsFeed将挑选出用户登录后会优先选择观看的10到15个其它用户，并把和用户具有密切关系的人的信息置于首要位置，替换掉原先来自专业新闻媒体的议程设置信息。
该举措出自于Facebook的用户不太关心新闻的现实状况，除非他们自主关注新闻信息或有强烈的意愿参与其中。
根据皮尤的研究报告，只有非常小部分的美国人会追踪关注新闻。即便大多数的美国人都是通过社交媒体来获取新闻，但是他们很少会“告诉”Facebook要求想要看到更多的新闻信息。
81%的美国人都接触过网络新闻，不过电视依旧是美国最广泛流行的新闻得知来源，57%的美国成年人“经常”看电视获取新闻，这要归因于老一代还是习惯于看电视。
超过70%的50岁以上的美国人经常收看电视新闻，少于50%的美国年轻人会看电视。同时，20岁左右的年轻人和大学生中只有约四分之一是固定的电视新闻观众，这类群体的50%则都是固定的网络新闻消费者。
当然，不是所有人都通吃Facebook这项功能。对有些美国人来说，他们更喜欢原先的NewsFeed，因为可以看到自己感兴趣的新闻并评论。但大多数人都会跳过新闻，除非某些新闻看起来极富趣味性才会点击。
从报告中看到，从总体情况来看，电视才是获取新闻的第一途径。
虽然网络用户的年轻势力大，但是年轻人对阅读新闻并没有什么兴趣。纸媒读者则大部分来自于65岁以上的老年群体，越年轻的群体越不怎么阅读纸质媒体。然而纸质媒体一般因为时间的沉淀和传统的制作过程，拥有更高的可信度。
据《大西洋月刊》另一则报道《Does Facebook Really Need Journalism?》，皮尤研究中心还调查了美国民众对媒体的信任程度，显示美国人对于媒体的信任度非常低。
但实际上，他们一般都经由Facebook得到新闻信息，而不是权威性高的专业新闻媒体。
Facebook上的新闻通常和其它信息掺杂在一块，可爱的小宝宝照片、愤世妒俗的吐槽、某个人的自拍等，新闻就像自助餐上的一块食物一样，埋没在眼花缭乱的各种“信息食物”中，等着别人来选择性地自主抓住。
很多用户都忽略了Facebook有各种途径进入新闻门户网站，他们很少会去专业新闻媒体确认信息的真实性和准确性。而Facebook本身并不是一个新闻网站，即便新闻发布商停止在上面发表新闻，对Facebook也影响不大。反而在竞争激烈的新闻行业来说，Facebook作为发布的其中一个途径是必要的。
“数据表明，科技公司对新闻行业的影响远超于商业领域，且直击新闻事业的核心。前信息时代，新闻组织控制着全线的新闻信息产品及服务，包括原创报道；写作发表；编辑取舍；打包运输和用户体验。但随着时间的推移，像Facebook和Apple这样的科技公司开始进行取代，如果竞技场上没有主导者，用户将会根据他们自己的喜好来筛选排除新闻产品。”——皮尤研究中心
这样看来，科技公司似乎从吸引受众眼球和财务收入上都是获胜者，狠狠击败了专业新闻媒体。另外，用户还倾向于使用智能手机阅读移动端的新闻。而为了谋取更多的经济利益来在短时间内吸引更多的读者，这些网站开始争当“标题党”，在新闻标题上出奇招，损害了新闻专业主义奉行的客观性。
尽管网络覆盖面积如此广大，网络用户数量众多，但对于美国人，尤其是老年人群来说，电视依然是获取重要新闻的第一来源。但是，现代社会下网络接触的普遍性，和某些新媒体不负责任的行为，还是对专业新闻媒体形成相当程度上的伤害。
虽然这项报告针对对象是美国，但相同的情况在中国今天并不罕见。科技公司的迅猛速度和多媒体展示能力，民众发散的兴趣爱好和愈不耐烦的“速食阅读”习惯，种种因素造成传统新闻媒体陷入困境的情形，应如何摆脱目前还没有明确的答案。