Relation of growth of use of the Internet to changes in media use from 1995 to 1999

This national survey of media use shows a huge gain for Internet use in the last four years and decline for both local and network television news nlm for newspapers, Comparison of those who use the Internet and those who do not shows that Internet. users are more likely than non-users to be newspaper readers and radio news listeners. For both local and network television news viewing, there is no significantly difference between users and non-users of the Internet. CIearly, the Internet is not the cause Of the decline in use of the other media.