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Most in U.S. turned to TV over Internet
©Associated Press, NEW YORK -- In this era of instant access to customized information over the Internet, Americans still turned to TV as their primary source of news on Tuesday's terror attacks. The Pew Internet & American Life Project said Saturday that more than four-fifths of Americans relied primarily on television for coverage. The project's telephone survey found 11 percent used radio, and only 3 percent turned to the Internet as the primary source. "By instinct, Americans for many years have been conditioned to use television this way," said Lee Rainie, the project's director. "When there's an enormous news story, the overwhelming number of people immediately want to go to where they can get the most vivid, up-to-date information." The Pew study was based on telephone interviews Wednesday and Thursday with 1,226 adults, including 663 Internet users. The survey has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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