
(Reuters) - The Internet is by far the most popular source of
information and the preferred choice for news ahead of television, newspapers
and radio, according to a new poll in the United States.
But just a small
fraction of U.S. adults considered social websites such as Facebook and MySpace
as a good source of news and even fewer would opt for Twitter.
More than half of the people
questioned in the Zogby Interactive survey said they would select the Internet
if they had to choose only one source of news, followed by 21 percent for
television and 10 percent for both newspapers and radio.
Only 10 percent described
social websites as an important for news, and despite the media buzz about
Twitter, only 4 percent would go to it for...