The given bar chart illustrates the proportion of individuals in various age groups who used three types of media, namely micro blogging, radio, and social networks to get routine news in one nation in 2011.
Overall, while the percentage of younger age groups saw a preference to use social networks, radio is the most common among older age groups. Regardless of age,micro blogging was the least popular medium for daily news.
Approximately 80% of people aged 10 to 29 use social networks to get news. For the 10–17 age group, social networks are the most popular method, with a usage rate much higher than microblogging and radio. However, in the 18–29 age group, while social networks are still widely used (80%), they are not as popular as radio, which has a rate of 90%.
Radio remains the most popular news source among age groups from 30 to 65+. A clear pattern is that as age increases, the usage rates of social networks and microblogging gradually decrease, indicating a preference for more traditional media among older age groups.