How do you get YOUR news ?

Ever catch yourself listening to something on the radio or the television regarding a current event, and you start nodding your head and agreeing ? Ever wonder if what you're hearing is actually true ?

You're not alone.

A University of Houston study finds that among other things, listeners of conservative talk radio are more likely to be misinformed than listeners of moderate talk radio - but they're more likely to agree with what they hear. Why ?

Vanity magazine reports the average age of conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh's 19-30 million weekly listeners is around the age of 67.


With the younger demographics sticking to the web and social media outlets for their news on political and social issues, prominent conservative radio personalities such as Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham have a stronghold on our public discourse on talk radio.


If old school conservatives are sticking to old school media for their politics - are liberals establishing themselves with social media?

The President of the United States certainly is.


 President Obama wouldn't have won The White House without the youth vote and it's no secret that the youth is what keeps social media giants like Twitter and Facebook #WINNING!

The President must be aware of this considering he's the only President to ever hold a Town Hall meeting via Twitter.

The President, along with other leading left-wingers are hitting social media sites now more than ever,  the question is, will their message reach millions of "listeners" the way talk-radio does?

President Barack Obama tweets during a "Twitter Town Hall" in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

  While Fox News is overwhelmingly a conservative television news channel and MSNBC an overwhelmingly liberal television news channel. Conservatives have radio as a medium to get their message out while liberals have identified with a more modern medium - INTERNET.

Liberals have a more substantial presence in the web world. Political messages through blogs and social media is dominated by liberals with the emergence of prominent left-wing blogs and online magazine/newspapers such as thinkprogress.org and Slate.

Conservative Gregory Ferenstein writes: 

"From…the million-strong Barack Obama Facebook page to the huge audience of the Huffington Post, liberals have been the dominant political force on the internet since the digital revolution began.”

It seems to be more than just a matter of preference. There's a relationship between older generations and older forms of technology and communication methods.

Why that dynamic exists and how it plays in shaping the public discourse concerning our pressing political and social issues is something we have a responsibility to pay attention to.

Regardless of the medium, we should be more concerned with truth and fact more-so than style.