This bar chart illustrates the percentage of the population in one county who accessed news through various channels of media: television, newspapers, radio, and internet in 2013, 2015, and 2017.
Regarding to the percentage in 2013 television was the most popular type of media that the majority of people chose to consume news, accounting for just less than80 percent. Following newspapers was the second preference at slightly above 40, while radio and internet were used for access news just for the minority of people which is approximately just more than 30 percent. However, the internet became more widespread informing news by increasing around 10 percent from 2013 to 2015. On the other hand, in 2015 the remaining media turned into less popular channels to acknowledge information that is newspapers and radio had the slightly equal percentage at approximately 30, including decreasing of individual informed news via television just slightly under70, but it was still the greatest one when compared with the other types of media.
There was a noticeable change of behavior’s population preferred to consume news two years later, 2017. Firstly,the internet saw a significant way that people accessed information, considering it almost the highest percentage which is at slightly under 70. Although, television has less preference from the previous, remaining the top one channel consuming news in 2015, while the radio unchanged the percent at around 30. As part of newspapers, it is less ubiquitous, accounting for slightly over 20 percent.
