In many countries, very few young people read newspapers or follow the news on TV. What do you think are the causes of this?

For a really long time, for what it feels like an eternity at
this
point, Newspapers and
TV
has ruled as a primary source of news. People relied on these mediums to stay abreast of
latest happenings
Suggestion
the latest happenings
in and around the world.
Initially it
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Initially, it
was
newspaper
only and
then
came along the
TV
. Even after the invention of
TV
,
newspaper
still had a lot of patronage. I still recall my father waiting by the gate to collect his morning dose of news. Reading
newspaper
with the morning tea was quite an affair in my household. Fast forward, everything changed with the invention of
internet
Suggestion
the internet
.
Internet
, rightly so, took the traditionally straightforward equation of
newspaper
and
tv
by storm. People of my generation see less of a point to read
newspaper
Suggestion
a newspaper
which only gets updated once in 24 hours as opposed to online sources which get updated once in every few minutes if not seconds. And as for
TV
, many young people don’t follow news on
TV
because its reporting system is traditionally flawed.
TV
reports news as it is happening without much context and background information to follow. The trajectory that
TV
news follows is almost always forward, never backwards. Unlike
TV
,
internet
gives you the opportunity to search and backtrack news.
Also
, with the
internet
you can pursue multiple news at one time, while all
TV
channels almost always focus one news. There is still a decent amount of
population
Suggestion
the population
who is patronising traditional sources of news, but these sources are out of interest of a great vast majority. Young people prefer to get news on the go and
internet
Suggestion
the internet
can give them that.
That is
the reason, others opinion may vary, very few young people read
newspaper
and follow the news on
TV
.
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