The given bar chart depicts the data of the broadcasting channels people choose to update information in a country for 2013, 2015, and 2017.
In general, what stands out from the graph is that there were downward trends in the fraction of people who receive news by television, newspaper, and radio, while the Internet shows positive signs on this figure over the period from 2013 to 2017. Another interesting point is that despite the decrease, TV is still the most popular choice and the data shows that newspapers are the last choice.
It can be easily seen that there was a clear contrast between whether people choose TV or the internet to get news. In 2013, television was much more popular than the internet, with more than twice as many people choosing television as the internet. However, Television experienced a fluctuation from 2015 and 2017, when it fluctuated slightly to less than 70% in 2015 and then up to over 70% in 2017, while the number of people who used the internet has been steadily increasing during that time, increased significantly by about 10% from 2013 to 2015, and then rose at a very rapid rate with figures nearly equal to the number of television choices in 2017, at about a 2% gap.
The proportion of people choosing to read newspapers and listen to the radio has both decreased, but the number of people choosing newspapers has decreased much more than that of radio when this number was roughly halved in 2017 (compared to 2013), while the number of people listening to the radio has only decreased slightly, only nearly 2%. After the number of people using radio to get news dropped in 2015, it leveled off at 30% until 2017.
