[thelist] On line Newspapers

[William Anderson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	martin burns [SMTP:martin at members.evolt.org]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 27, 2000 3:37 PM
> To:	thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject:	Re: [thelist] On line Newspapers
> 
> Niklaus wrote:
> > Just came across those two articles at Wired News (I know):
> > 
> >  Net-Loving Brits Hate Net News (Culture 6:00 a.m. PDT)
> >  http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,37755,00.html?tw=wn20000725 
> >  Here's another statistic that flies in the face of doomsayers who
> > predict the Internet will kill newspapers: Nearly 90 percent of British
> > Net users say they'll never go online for news.
> 
> Call me riding the dot-com wave if you like, but I can't go a working day
> without http://news.bbc.co.uk/ open & ready to ALT-TAB to.
> 
> Oh, and www.theregister.co.uk and http://slashdot.org/
> 
> 
yeh, ditto for me - my usual suspects are Slashdot, Wired News and Yahoo! UK
News (which links into Ananova, BBC News, Reuters, This Is London, and even
the Scottish Daily Record!).  I take a nosey at CNN and MSNBC every so often
for a US slant.

the thing is, only 1000 people were polled - how can that be a
representative cross-section of _every_ net.user in the UK?  And anyway, the
article states that eight out of ten of us would never use news from the net
as our _primary_ source of news - it doesn't say that they'd _never_ use it?
Lies, damn lies and Wired News' interpretation of old-style polled-average
statistics?

sorry tho, (r) leaves me cold - I don't trust many of their "news" stories
most of the time ;)

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William Anderson, WS Atkins IT Scotland, Glasgow
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