This characteristic of the Internet will encourage the proliferation of new news services and electronic magazines. Because the costs of distributing information over the Internet are much less than by the airwaves and the printed page, new small and specialized press services and magazines will emerge. They will distribute their journalistic products using methods such as e-mail subscriptions and Web sites. And people are taking advantage of these features of the Internet. The number of people with Internet access is climbing rapidly.
Many Internet users devote one or more hours every day to Internet use.
The Internet has done more than merely break the mass media's monopoly on distribution of news and entertainment. It has also broken the media's ability to decide which stories are newsworthy. A large volume of information is generated and distributed every day on the Internet. Sometimes, this information is generated and distributed from the Web sites of groups and individuals. Much of this news, however, appears and is distributed on the various newsgroup and e-mail conferences on the Internet.