The Web may not have won the media contest in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks but it's making strides, according to a Harris Interactive survey of 4,610 adult
Web users.
Response indicates that 78 percent of adults went primarily to TV for news during the crisis, while only three percent relied on the Web. In the aftermath, however, the 'Net's
volume of news junkies more than doubled. In the three weeks following the terrorist attacks, eight percent of users in America sought out the Web as a primary news source.
The most recent Harris poll of 989 adults with Web access, completed between Sept. 27 and Oct. 1, reveals that while the majority of Americans still turn to the tube for the
latest news, 80 percent now get at least some information from the Internet, up from 64 percent immediately following the strikes. That makes the 'Net second only to television in
overall popularity.
Newspaper popularity also has soared - on Sept. 12, only 16 percent of respondents reported using newspapers to get the news, but by Sept. 27, the number had skyrocketed to 78
percent. For more information from the Harris Poll, see http://www.harrisinteractive.com/news/allnewsbydate.asp?NewsID71.