Abstract
Based on personal interviews with 166 men and women older than age 65 and 246 mail questionnaires, this study finds that older people prefer television for national and world news, but newspapers for local news. Of television programs, both men and women prefer news and public affairs programs highest, but thereafter women prefer educational programs next while men favor sports programs. Women watch early evening television news more than do men, while men more often watch late night television news. Men and women who rely on television news tend to think of news anchors and television reporters as like real people they know, and women often report they learn information from television to pass on to others in conversation.
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