John Barth was until recently director of news. The largest trend are people who are there for breaking news or summary of news. Barth says for the older audience, online news is a secondary source used in conjunction with television, radio, and print. Mike Henry and his wife, Sherry, still watch TV news and still listen to the radio. When I go to the Internet, it's because I want to know a little bit more about something I heard about on the news because they don't have time to give you a full story or enough background.
Television is still a companion.
I think the Internet probably removes the emotion away from a lot of news stories. It comes across as a news flash on the Internet and the news section and doesn't have the same effect. But for Generation X and beyond, there is less of a TV news habit. If you look at some of the younger users that we have, they are not watching TV and they are not reading the newspaper. Their greater reliance is online.