Newspapers still generate most news, despite Internet

Our friends at Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism found that 95 percent of stories with "new information" came from traditional media, mostly newspapers.

The study found that most of the newer providers, including online blogs and those that use social media such as Twitter, "did not produce any local content" during the period studied.

In studying six major news "threads," the researchers concluded that "fully 83 percent of stories were essentially repetitive, conveying no new information."

Of the 17 percent that did contain new information, "nearly all came from traditional media either in their legacy platforms or in new digital ones," the researchers said.