June 02, 2015
Millennials rely on Facebook twice as much as local T.V. news, and vice-versa for Baby Boomers, according to a recent Pew study.
The study found that 61 percent of millennials (ages 18-33) said they get political news from Facebook, while only 37 percent said they got it from their local television news.
Those numbers flip-flopped for Baby Boomers (ages 50-68), with 60 percent saying they got their political news from the local news, but only 39 percent getting it from Facebook.
In the middle of those two age groups, about half (51 percent) of Generation X (ages 34-49) respondents said they relied on Facebook for news, and slightly less (46 percent) saying the used local T.V. news.
The study relied on information from a survey that was used to analyze how respondents with different political ideologies got their news. That study found while liberals got their information from a number of sources, such as The New York Times, NPR and CNN, a large cluster of conservatives all got most of their news from Fox News.
The survey was taken online by 2,901 respondents and had a margin of error of 2.3 percentage points.
