Who's Better Informed, Newspaper Readers or Web Surfers?
Slate, July 20, 2009
By Michael Kinsley
Slate will be conducting an experiment: For three days, two newspaper journalists will each spend no more than an hour every day reading papers that are available where they live. For the same three days, another team of two Web journalists will get all their news from the Web. Who will be better informed?
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