ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the story of how generational change has contributed to the transformation in the United States, as well as in most advanced industrialized democracies. It focuses the data presentation, which premised on the theoretical perspective that newspaper reading is a well-ingrained habit. Newspapers are an incredibly diverse source of information on all sorts of topics such as: politics, sports, weather, business, culture, and health. Reading a newspaper every day is a habit that, once acquired, is generally continued throughout one's lifetime, and for most people such a routine either is or is not developed by the time a person reaches voting age. CNN's Headline News channel is aptly named, as it covers only what a newspaper reader would get by simply scanning the headlines. Available survey data from the United States and Europe do show that the younger someone is, the more likely he or she is to read newspaper articles online.
