{"id":382,"date":"2007-04-07T03:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=382"},"modified":"2007-04-07T03:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-07T09:42:00","slug":"are-18-24-year-olds-just-not-news-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/04\/are-18-24-year-olds-just-not-news-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Are 18-24 year olds just not news consumers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">O<\/span>nline readership figures have just come out from <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Nielsen\/Net Ratings<\/span> for February (see <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mediapost.com\/research_brief\/?p=1409\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Loechner<\/a>&#8216;s post for more). I may be missing something but they seem to show the same kind of trends for news and current affairs that we see in newspapers and TV news audiences, i.e. 18-24 year olds just aren&#8217;t natural news consumers.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_7FX8PyQEiZw\/RhdocMF4sQI\/AAAAAAAAAA0\/UIdon1_dkDU\/s1600-h\/News+online.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>I&#8217;ve long thought that 18-24 was a low-news life segment, and we should just get over it. It would be a sad world if 18-24 year-olds weren&#8217;t socialising, networking and creating the kind of relationships that might:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>make life more fun<\/li>\n<li>continue the human race<\/li>\n<li>see them through the remainder of their lives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Anyone out there disagree? Or have I got the wrong end of the stick from these numbers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online readership figures have just come out from Nielsen\/Net Ratings for February (see Jack Loechner&#8216;s post for more). I may be missing something but they seem to show the same kind of trends for news and current affairs that we see in newspapers and TV news audiences, i.e. 18-24 year olds just aren&#8217;t natural news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-news","category-news-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}