More adults tap Internet for election news: survey

[Omaha Steve]

http://reuters.excite.com/article/20060920/2006-09-20T181037Z_01_N20405748_RTRIDST_0_POLITICS-POLITICS-INTERNET-DC.html

More adults tap Internet for election news: survey
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Sep 20, 2:10 PM (ET)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly one-fifth of American adult users of the Internet in August 2006 spent some time reading about politics or the coming U.S. election, a big increase from November 2004, according to a survey released on Wednesday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

The non-partisan think tank said 26 million Americans -- or 19 percent of adult users -- turned to the Internet in August to read political news and information, compared to 21 million in November 2004 when a presidential election was held.

The latest figure is noteworthy because August is typically a quiet month in political campaigns due to summer vacations, said John Horrigan, associate director of the Pew project.

"We think that increase is due to more and better content about politics than there was a couple of years ago," Horrigan said.

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[Anakin Skywalker]

1. Really? Not according to Alberto Gonzales.

He thinks they are all surfing for porn and that's why he wants all ISPs to retain customer data. See yesterday's news items.

[EFerrari]

4. To a felon like him, unfiltered news IS porn. n/t

[meow2u3]

2. That's because the corporate media can't be trusted

to tell us the entire truth. They just can't do the bidding of their parent companies if the media were to tell Americans the unvarnished truth.

[samsingh]

3. i don't trust or like television news.