The line graph illustrates the proportion of individuals who use four different intermediary tools to reach news between 1995 and 2025.
Overall, at the beginning of the period, TV was the most used source among other three, although it fell to second place at the end of timeline. For newspaper and radio, they started the timeframe with extremely close rates and continued with similiar fluctuations. In the same time, the ratio of internet proceeded the year as the lowest before experiencing a sharp upward trend and becoming the first.
In 1995, the most preffered source for accessing news was TV, which was accounted for about . Even though it demonstrated a decrease from 1995 to 2000 to a little below 60%, its rate increased to 60% until 2010. After that period of time, TV showed a stable fall of 10% and ranked as the second highest opted source. On the other hand, the opposite of TV, internet usage recorded 0% in the year of 1995 due to its absence. While the internet gained popularity over time, in about 2002, it displayed a dramatic rise until reaching approximately 55% and thus, took the first place in 2025.
The rates of newspaper and radio were nearly same in the early 1995, which were about 52% and 53%, respectively. Then, they commenced to show a downward trend throughout the period. In 2000, they were both at 50% and declined gradually together. At the end of the duraiton, newspaper and radio finished the time span as third and fourth, in that order.