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Sandra Musonda
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The Internet as a news source
June 2, 2004 - 05:31 AM
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Hi guys I need your help. I’ve got a research report to do for school. I’ll appreciate your help. I’m trying to find out how the Internet is used as a news source and what people think of news websites.
Just answer the questions below as fully and honestly as possible.you can email the answers to me: sanchamuzo2002@yahoo.com or send them through the TIG messenger. thanx.
1. Are you a regular Internet user?
Yes/No
2. Do you visit news websites?
Yes/No/Sometimes
3. Which sites do you visit?
4. What is the value of news websites as a source of news?
5. What are the advantages of this media compared to newspapers, radio or television?
6. What do you like about the sites?
7. Do you find the news on the Internet credible? Give reasons.
8. On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the lowest, 10 highest) how would you rate the sites you visit?
9. Do you visit international news sites? What are your ratings compared to local news sites?
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Re: The Internet as a news source
June 2, 2004 - 08:02 AM
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Originally posted by sandy1
Hi guys I need your help. I’ve got a research report to do for school. I’ll appreciate your help. I’m trying to find out how the Internet is used as a news source and what people think of news websites.
Just answer the questions below as fully and honestly as possible.
1. Are you a regular Internet user?
Yes/No
2. Do you visit news websites?
Yes/No/Sometimes
3. Which sites do you visit?
3. What is the value of news websites as a source of news?
4. What are the advantages of this media compared to newspapers, radio or television?
6. What do you like about the sites?
7. Do you find the news on the Internet credible? Give reasons.
8. On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the lowest, 10 highest) how would you rate the sites you visit?
9. Do you visit international news sites? What are your ratings compared to local news sites?
1. Yes
2. Yes
3. News 24 and Cape Times
4. Quick and easy to keep informed on latest news. Gets updated regurly so you don't have to waut for a newspaper to come out.
6. More relaxing than to read a huge newspaper. U can have a quick look at it when u having lunch. It's no hassel. With one click You can go to a story without having to turn pages or use a remote control.
7. Yes. It features the same stories that can be found on radio, tv and newspapers later on .
8. 8
9. yes. Theres no major difference.
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Vivek
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Re: The Internet as a news source
June 2, 2004 - 10:39 AM
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Originally posted by sandy1
1. Are you a regular Internet user?
Yes/No
Yes
2. Do you visit news websites?
Yes/No/Sometimes
Yes.
3. Which sites do you visit?
www.rediff.com
www.ndtv.com
4. What is the value of news websites as a source of news?
It is comparatively a much faster source of news.
5. What are the advantages of this media compared to newspapers, radio or television?
It is more convenient
6. What do you like about the sites?
I like the op-ed pieces on rediff, the portray the views of the far right and the far left.
7. Do you find the news on the Internet credible? Give reasons.
News is never 100% credible, and Internet isn't any different.
8. On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the lowest, 10 highest) how would you rate the sites you visit?
I would rate rediff at 7 and ndtv at 8.
9. Do you visit international news sites? What are your ratings compared to local news sites?
At times I do read the op-ed pieces from Newyork Times.
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Nick Moraitis
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Email?
June 2, 2004 - 10:57 AM
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If you feel comfortable, why don't you post your email address in the discussion forum so that we can respond to you directly with our answers? Rather than take up a lot of discussion forum space which is a bit unwieldy 
Hopefully we can create a publically accessible survey tool on TIG to help members with this kind of thing in the near future.
Cheers
Nick
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Dear Sandy
June 3, 2004 - 08:44 AM
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1. Yes
2. Sometimes
3.www.takingitglobal.org, www.mahjoob.com, www.aljazeera.net, www.microsoft.com, www.gulf-news.com, and www.mcpmag.com
4.it is a big value, and I got too may advanteges from the websites specially he historical and the scientific ones.
5. I think it is better and faster, and You can get what you want excatly.
I like the Cultural, Scientific,news, and the funny ones.
7. Depend on the website uit self, for me I belive in Al-Jazeera.net and our local news paper.
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9. I belive in the local ones more.
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re:help wanted
June 4, 2004 - 06:31 AM
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Answers:
i:yes
2:yes
3:cnn,bbc,newageonline.com,punchng,skynews...
4:it's valuable cos u get a lot of info's there both xtras
5:it's simple,u'll agree with me tht this media is more direct and easy to use than other medias cos it covers a wider area than tv&the rest medias for instance u can decide what u want to read and see.and u also decide what u want to take from the site.
6:their range of coverage,and their updatedness
7:yes of course the only things i think are not credible on net are porn sites,hacking and all other crime sites i think the rest especially the news site should be given enough credibility.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
8 i:news sites are so wonderful and helpful)
(2:they are very up to date with informations)
(3:they run 24hrs which make them very easy to use}
(4:some have sections where u can also voice out ur opinions for public reading)
(5i like he sites course i get to read wat sup even b4 it is published)
(6the sites are so helpful cos their informations can be retrieved anytime without u going to thier office or contacting a vendor for old copies of news magazines u just log on to their sites and fetch ur information)
(7:news websites are among the best thing to have happened to globalisation)
(8news sites have other xtras like mail sign up news letters and some even have chat rooms for registered users(e.g newageonline)
(9most news sites i visit are really educative)
(10most newssites like the cnn&bbc have online services.
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9:well i must admit that we can't compare international sites to local ones but i still strongly hold the believe that local news sites are extremely competent.
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Re: The Internet as a news source
June 4, 2004 - 07:52 AM
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1. Are you a regular Internet user?
Yes
2. Do you visit news websites?
Yes
3. Which sites do you visit?
http://news.google.com/ mostly. This site leads me to many others which I view sporadically.
4. What is the value of news websites as a source of news?
Instant access. Also you can get more in-depth coverage online as opposed to TV where you get only sound bites.
5. What are the advantages of this media compared to newspapers, radio or television?
Newspapers you can only get at your front door or at newsstand/bookstore. Internet can be on your phone, at work, at school and at home. Radio is only available in car mostly in US, I'm not allowed to listen to radio at work but can use Internet. TV: recycles same broadcasts over and over and again isn't everywhere.
6. What do you like about the sites?
I can choose what I read. I don't have to wait for the story about the Spelling Bee champ to find out what's going on.
7. Do you find the news on the Internet credible? Give reasons. More so than TV anyway. Many online news sites are smaller and less influenced by big advertisers.
8. On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the lowest, 10 highest) how would you rate the sites you visit? 10. Google news is updated every few minutes and gives you a sampling of news from many sources. On any given story you can choose your source...you aren't locked into any one source.
9. Do you visit international news sites? What are your ratings compared to local news sites? Sometimes. they tend to be less US friendly...which is good!
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re:help wanted
June 5, 2004 - 10:08 AM
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Originally posted by hoobabanks
Answers:
i:yes
2:yes
3:cnn,bbc,newageonline.com,punchng,skynews...
4:it's valuable cos u get a lot of info's there both xtras
5:it's simple,u'll agree with me tht this media is more direct and easy to use than other medias cos it covers a wider area than tv&the rest medias for instance u can decide what u want to read and see.and u also decide what u want to take from the site.
6:their range of coverage,and their updatedness
7:yes of course the only things i think are not credible on net are porn sites,hacking and all other crime sites i think the rest especially the news site should be given enough credibility.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
8i:news sites are so wonderful and helpful)
(2:they are very up to date with informations)
(3:they run 24hrs which make them very easy to use}
(4:some have sections where u can also voice out ur opinions for public reading)
(5i like he sites course i get to read wat sup even b4 it is published)
(6the sites are so helpful cos their informations can be retrieved anytime without u going to thier office or contacting a vendor for old copies of news magazines u just log on to their sites and fetch ur information)
(7:news websites are among the best thing to have happened to globalisation)
(8news sites have other xtras like mail sign up news letters and some even have chat rooms for registered users(e.g newageonline)
(9most news sites i visit are really educative)
(10most newssites like the cnn&bbc have online services.
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9:well i must admit that we can't compare international sites to local ones but i still strongly hold the believe that local news sites are extremely competent.
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