In what is undoubtedly a shocking and groundbreaking revelation,
the Pew Research Center has conducted a recent study which has
caused it to conclude that young adults now get their news
predominantly from the internet, rather than from television
(and even less from ham radio). According to the study, which
the center seems to have been conducting yearly for a while now,
67 percent of adults under 30 said in 2010 that the 'net was
their primary source of news, up from 34 percent in 2007.
Curiously, respondents could choose up to two 'main' news
sources, so 52 percent report that television is a main news
source in 2010, down from 68 percent in 2007. While none of this
probably comes as any surprise to any of you, our readers, it
does tend to explain that strange and ever-growing tendency
we've noticed in our friends of talking about things like
Groupon, Facebook, and some meme some webpage made up to sell
something as if they were talking about actual news.   Late mid-
week shocker: young adults get their 'ne