@Metal-Brain saidI gave you the link, but it is hardly 'new' news. It's the reason less people are buying tv licences in the UK.
What was the exact question asked in that poll?
There has been a “generational shift in the balance of news media”.
@Ghost-of-a-Duke
This is what your article said:
"More than seven out of 10 UK adults (71😵 consume online news"
All it says is consume. How much? One or two articles a week?
You are making faulty assumptions. It does not say how much they read the news. And since it does not, that number is surprisingly low.
@Ghost-of-a-Duke saidPeople in the UK are sick of paying the license fee. That is all that proves. Here in the USA we are not forced to pay the BBC for news.
I gave you the link, but it is hardly 'new' news. It's the reason less people are buying tv licences in the UK.
There has been a “generational shift in the balance of news media”.
@Metal-Brain saidThere has only been one false assumption in this exchange and it was yours:
@Ghost-of-a-Duke
This is what your article said:
"More than seven out of 10 UK adults (71😵 consume online news"
All it says is consume. How much? One or two articles a week?
You are making faulty assumptions. It does not say how much they read the news. And since it does not, that number is surprisingly low.
"Websites do not count because few people like to read the news."
Why am I spoon feeding you this. Are you 6?
@Metal-Brain saidIn the UK there has been a “generational shift in the balance of news media”.
People in the UK are sick of paying the license fee. That is all that proves. Here in the USA we are not forced to pay the BBC for news.
Pay attention.
@Ghost-of-a-Duke
TV licences: BBC to go ahead with over-75s licence fee changes
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53347021
We all consume things. You have to prove more website news is being consumed than TV news. That article proved nothing of the sort. All that proves is that 29% of Brits hate reading or cannot read well.
@Metal-Brain saidThis is genuinely one of the daftest things I have ever read.
Websites do not count because few people like to read the news.
Do you live in a cave?
@Metal-Brain saidHere, have a ball.
@Ghost-of-a-Duke
TV licences: BBC to go ahead with over-75s licence fee changes
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53347021
We all consume things. You have to prove more website news is being consumed than TV news. That article proved nothing of the sort. All that proves is that 29% of Brits hate reading or cannot read well.
@Ghost-of-a-Duke saidPeople get news from TV more than websites.
This is genuinely one of the daftest things I have ever read.
Do you live in a cave?
@Metal-Brain saidOnly in America.
People get news from TV more than websites.
TV has been considered the leading source of UK news since the 1960s, when widespread set ownership saw it overtake radio and newspapers. But Ofcom’s annual study into how we access news shows that 71% of adults now do so online, compared to 70% for TV, marking a generational shift in the balance of news media.
Going online is by far the most popular way for younger people to access news (88% of 16–24-year-olds), but older generations are also gradually adding online sources to their news diets.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-and-attitudes/attitudes-to-news/tv-loses-its-crown-as-main-source-for-news/
-Removed-No dodge. I provided the rest of the quote you (conveniently) omitted.
'Around 500,000 households cancelled their licence fee last year with the number of payers falling to 23.9 million.
The fee costs £169.50 and the number deciding they can do without shows the increased competition the BBC faces from YouTube and streaming platforms.'
Do you not see how the cancellations were attributed to increased competition from online news (as I argued) not as an exodus of protest towards an impartial BBC?
@Ghost-of-a-Duke saidWe all get news from websites. We don't all get most of our news from websites. That poll you keep bringing up is misleading. It says consume. It does not say consume more.
Only in America.
TV has been considered the leading source of UK news since the 1960s, when widespread set ownership saw it overtake radio and newspapers. But Ofcom’s annual study into how we access news shows that 71% of adults now do so online, compared to 70% for TV, marking a generational shift in the balance of news media.
Going online is by far the most ...[text shortened]... w.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-and-attitudes/attitudes-to-news/tv-loses-its-crown-as-main-source-for-news/
If you read one article a week you consume it. If you watched the BBC news on TV every day that week you also consumed that. Where did you get most of your news from? TV.
@Ghost-of-a-Duke saidThe BBC is forcing you to pay for their propaganda if you want a TV.
No dodge. I provided the rest of the quote you (conveniently) omitted.
'Around 500,000 households cancelled their licence fee last year with the number of payers falling to 23.9 million.
The fee costs £169.50 and the number deciding they can do without shows the increased competition the BBC faces from YouTube and streaming platforms.'
Do you not see how ...[text shortened]... sed competition from online news (as I argued) not as an exodus of protest towards an impartial BBC?
I would expect some people to rebel. It is a rip off.