Millennials and Baby Boomers: A Generational Divide in Sources Relied on for Political News previous weekfrom...
It’s been well documented that younger adults differ from their elders in their news habits, both in the platforms they use and the sources they rely on. A Pew Research Center report released today looks specifically at the political news habits of Millennials, and how they vary from the two generations before them. Here are five key takeaways from the report:
Millennials rely on Facebook for their news far more than any other source. About six-in-ten online Millennials (61%) report getting political news on Facebook in a given week. Baby Boomers’ political media habits, on the other hand, are strongly rooted in local TV: A majority of them (60%) say they turn there for political news. Millennials’ relatively low reliance on local TV (37% watch political news there in a given week) almost mirrors Baby Boomers’ low reliance on Facebook (39%). Gen Xers bridge the gap, with about equal portions of online adults in this generation getting political news from Facebook (51%) and local TV (46%).
Millennials and Baby Boomers: A  | Generational Divide in Sources Relied  | on for Political News  | % who got news about politics and government in the  | previous weekfrom...  | Facebook  | 61%  | 60  | Local  | TV  | 39  | 37%  | Millennial  | Baby Boomer  | American Trends Panel (wave 1). Survey cond ucted March19-April  | 29 2014. Q22, Q24A Based on online adults.  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 