know you are 30 years old. and this woman that could be my neighbor and the stories do sound like the back of a community newspaper, like the fun stories that aren t at all international or like what you see on buzzfeed. it very much is. and i think buzzfeed has been a leader in figuring out exactly what sort of principals people like in news that succeed on facebook. it is sort of the thing you could find on msnbc.com. or on krystal clear, wednesday at 11:00 a.m. and you talk about relate ability, isn t that the formula that local tv news has been. you talk about the accidental news junky and i think there is something to that but we ve had that accidental news junky if you look at tv and i want to watch something, flip around the channels and i accidentally come around something on a local newscast or national or network and we re getting things accidentally that way. isn t this a similar concept, just a simple form? i totally agree.
regular sources. only 3% get it from national tv. 4% from local tv and 2% from newspapers. more feel go to wikipedia than national tv and the number one source for people is google. 51% get their news from google. did any of this surprise you? didn t surprise me by kind but degree. what surprised me was there is an accidental news junky. somebody who isn t interested in the hard news of the day but by fact of the way they are spending so much time on facebook, there is this expertise without opening up the news. because there senl 140 characters. if you want the new york times, go to the new york times
welcome back. in a new study by the american press institute proves what seemed obvious for years, the future of news is online. that is good for abby s adventurous and the web show and ari. and most go to the web for news and millennials are still getting news accidentally. 90% were exposed to news on facebook and even if most didn t go to the website to get the news. the journalism in the anyone of the accidental news junky and joining us to discuss it is derek thompson senior editor at the atlantic. interesting study. what stood out were two takeaways, people aren t uninterested in news we crave news but we don t get it from
man, oh, man, did annie have a lot of wigs. one time she stopped by my office sporting a particularly garish one saying, do you think it makes me look fat? that was when the yankees were an obsession and derek jeter was an even deeper obsession. a news junky but one who as the news progressed began wondering aloud if all of it wasn t just junk and all of us are tuned into that junk. i don t think annie would mind if i share this tweet. i beg the world, stop complaining, find ways to be happy. seriously, dig deep. even in my worst times, i still try, no matter how hard. leave it to a woman young enough to be my daughter to offer wisdom way, way beyond her years and maybe the suddenly sadder holiday season will jar us back to things that matter in life.
ji. and i discovered how much of a news junky you are. i enjoy it. you re so plugged in. you appeared on breaking bad. i did. are we allowed to say that. in an episode i directed. you directed that one? really? yes, i did. those were the days, i m sure that s what gave the momentum to breaking bad. that s it. the thing about you being so plugged in to current news, i wondered if that s what inspired you and your historical fascination. clearly, you didn t just do this role, you lived it, read it, listened to it, went to the lbj library. he was you. when i was a boy and johnson became president i had a different impression of him. he was very laconic and specific and determined and serious. that s not who he was at all. he was, as in the play, a storytelling back slapping crude