France: news consumers skeptical of online citizen sources
59% of the respondents thought being informed was “important” and 16% even thought it was “vital.”
Interestingly, 63% of the respondents consider than news published in online participatory outlets “can’t be considered as news” and they doubt the “veracity of their (the outlets’) news sources.”
The question would then be to probe whether this perception results from pre-conceptions about online citizen news, or if it is accurate.
The online study was conducted in April 2007 with 1,000 respondents, theoretically representative of the French population.
Source: Le Monde
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I was just thinking about this the other day. As a journalist student, I find it kind of inspiring, that social networking sites such as MySpace News would want to feature hardcore news. Of course, the audience is different. I'm sure MySpace users are more interested in celebrity gossip, video games, etc. But they have access to this. I think MySpace News is a great resource and newspapers should look as it as a great opportunity to connect to more readers.