Internet leads the list of media sources selected by Americans

According to a new poll in the U.S., the Internet remains the most popular source of information and the preferred choice for news ahead of television, newspapers and radio About 84 percent of American have access to the Internet.

But just a small percentage of adults considered social websites such as Facebook and MySpace as a good source of news and even fewer would opt for Twitter.

According to the Zogby Interactive survey, more than half said they would select the Internet, 21 percent for television and 10 percent for both newspapers and radio.

Nearly 40 percent of adults chose the Internet as the most reliable source of news,17 percent preferred television and 16 percent selected newspapers and only 13 percent opted for radio.

Almost half of 3,030 adults said national newspaper websites were important to them, followed by 43 percent who preferred television websites. As it turned out Blogs were less of a necessity than websites with only 28 percent.

Thus, when people were asked to peer into the future, 82 percent said the Internet would be the main source of information in five years time, in comparison with 13 for television and 0.5 percent chose newspapers.