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Young people turn to the Web for news
3/22/2006 | 
Coverage
Peter Johnson, USA Today, Life
'“Meg Scholz, a senior at the University of Texas, goes online at least a few times every day to check her e-mail.
When she does, Scholz invariably scans several news websites and blogs to see what's going on in the world. She rarely picks up a newspaper or watches TV news, because for her, the Web serves virtually all her news needs.
"It's not that I have anything against reading a printed newspaper," says Scholz, 21. "But for my lifestyle, the Internet is more accessible."
A study released today by the Pew Internet & American Life project finds that for people like Scholz and Ulahannan, the Internet has become the primary news source on the average day.
"For many of these young broadband users, the Internet is their main course for news, and they don't always eat their vegetables or order dessert in the form of using other media," says study author John Horrigan."
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