Italy’s Communications Regulatory Authority (AGCOM) recently10 confirmed this by measuring the four major categories of media (television, Internet, newspapers, radio) according to the share of the population that claims to use that medium as its main source of  10  AGCOM, Rapporto sul consumo d’informazione, February 2018.
13  information: 56.6 per cent said television and radio were their primary source, 26.3 per cent the Internet and 17.1 per cent newspapers.11 Television and radio, precisely because of their general popularity as channels of information, above all for politics, have, for many years, been particularly exposed to the influence of political parties and movements, which impair their ability to filter news on the basis of genuine scientific facts.