Thursday Work Session

Online access for news media continues to increase. With phones on your person 24/7 it makes sense that there's been recent spikes in how people access their news everyday. Newspapers and TV's have continued to decline for access to news. This article shows the data chart that from about 2006 to 2012 the access through mobile devices like tablets and phones for news has increased significantly, which also shows a positive correlation to more people accessing news overall. Just 23% of people interviewed said they read the newspaper, which is down 3% from 2010. People are evolving with the way technology is. Since technology is making life just that much simpler, people aren't willing to exhaust themselves with the walk down to the end of the driveway for the morning paper when they have their phone, laptop, or tablet right in front of them. The advancements allows for endless search for news. Newspapers end and they only put what they think is the most important information. The internet doesn't end, and people like to be in control. The internet allows you to be in control of what you want to read or watch, the newspaper or TV doesn't necessarily allow that all of the time. It is important to understand the easy access of our mobile devices to the news media has connected our society and made us all the more knowledgable.