I'm in political communications and am, in modern parlance, far Too Online. I definitely spend over 12 hours a day, and I'm one of the less engaged people in politics/civics fields that I've seen (depending on available time, of course).
Given people like us and the group of people that seems just plain ADDICTED to outrage bait/who hang out all day on Twitter, I think we might be skewing that number pretty drastically.
Either that or their definition of 'news' is wider than we'd expect and would include things like celebrity news. If we include keeping up with musicians/actors/Youtubers/etc. I wouldn't be shocked if that bumped up the numbers a lot.
I'm in political communications and am, in modern parlance, far Too Online. I definitely spend over 12 hours a day, and I'm one of the less engaged people in politics/civics fields that I've seen (depending on available time, of course).
Given people like us and the group of people that seems just plain ADDICTED to outrage bait/who hang out all day on Twitter, I think we might be skewing that number pretty drastically.
Either that or their definition of 'news' is wider than we'd expect and would include things like celebrity news. If we include keeping up with musicians/actors/Youtubers/etc. I wouldn't be shocked if that bumped up the numbers a lot.