Are the primary access to news
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 5:20 am
Even if it remains the primary source of information for 66% of young people. Trust in television has increased by two points this year, and television remains the preferred medium for the French to get information, with a preference for general channels over continuous news channels. Social networks move to first position for access to information on the Internet On the Internet, a source considered unreliable, the primary point of access to information is social networks.
It is therefore not the sites and applications of the historical linkedin database media that are popular as a means of accessing information. This phenomenon is perceived in a very differentiated way depending on the age, social level and even the political color of the user. The fact that social networks, with information potentially not verified by journalists,, naturally does not worry the younger generations, the primary users of the latter. 37% even consider this to be a good thing. 52% , mainly CSP+ and older generations, are nevertheless worried about the erosion of the gatekeeper role of traditional media in the transmission of information.
Young people's interest in news at an all-time low A worrying fact in the middle of the presidential campaign: the interest of 18-24 year-olds in news has fallen this year to its lowest level ever. The French's interest in news has fallen by 5 points to 62% after a year particularly rich in news around Covid, but the interest of young people has collapsed to only 38%. T he distrust of the four information media (television, radio, print media, Internet) is encouraging an increasingly large part of the population to "put the news at a distance", underlines Guillaume Caline, Director of Public Issues and Opinion at Kantar .
It is therefore not the sites and applications of the historical linkedin database media that are popular as a means of accessing information. This phenomenon is perceived in a very differentiated way depending on the age, social level and even the political color of the user. The fact that social networks, with information potentially not verified by journalists,, naturally does not worry the younger generations, the primary users of the latter. 37% even consider this to be a good thing. 52% , mainly CSP+ and older generations, are nevertheless worried about the erosion of the gatekeeper role of traditional media in the transmission of information.
Young people's interest in news at an all-time low A worrying fact in the middle of the presidential campaign: the interest of 18-24 year-olds in news has fallen this year to its lowest level ever. The French's interest in news has fallen by 5 points to 62% after a year particularly rich in news around Covid, but the interest of young people has collapsed to only 38%. T he distrust of the four information media (television, radio, print media, Internet) is encouraging an increasingly large part of the population to "put the news at a distance", underlines Guillaume Caline, Director of Public Issues and Opinion at Kantar .