Here’s an interesting graphic contained in an exhibit attached to a motion just filed in the case of Mike Miske and his co-defendants.
It is among the information filed in court along with a survey of residents asking about pretrial news coverage about the Miske case. It has a number of limitations, both in the relativelly small size of the sample (153 respondents) and the questions asked, which aren’t relevant to this post.
One question was asked about sources of news: “ What news sources do you regularly follow? (Check all that apply to you)”
Ranking as the top news sources followed by this group of 153 Hawaii residents was Hawaii News Now (20%), followed by Civil Beat (16%) and a catch-all category of “social media” (15%). The top three were followed by KHON News (14%), and both KITV News and the Honolulu Star-Advertiser at 13%.
I found the rankings interesting.
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“Social Media” is a broad term, I have wished they’d allowed for a more specific answer.
Since Ian’s is the number one source of Miske-related news. You would think his defense team would have listed ilind.net as a news source. It looks like they are using Ian’s Civil Beat articles to show larger knowledge. I’m surprised they don’t ask a direct question.
Yes, you have expressed the same thought I had but you expressed it much better.
I would want to see it broken out between telecast and web for HNN, KHON, etc.
I think it’s very difficult to draw any conclusion of the “media landscape” from this obviously. Apples and oranges. The SA is a subscription based media model requiring annual payment of about $500 while all the others are essentially free access. As far as the Miske trial coverage I don’t think any of them cover this much at all other than an occasional update. Ian lives and breathes this so he owns whatever news there is on this.
This survey again shows the grip that “bigger media than the small players” have on the Hawaii news media landscape. And this is why local bloggers have a bit of a time getting a grip in people’s minds to be a source of information for this state. For a while, I have been fielding questions as to why independent media does not get a bigger share of brand knowledge in the people who consume it, and this question is a perfect example of that – instead of pointing out specific media – like yours for instance – they bundle the blogger/vlogger/podcast world of Hawaii into “social media” thus both branding all that content and labeling it complete with the bias that people have toward it.
Radio has ceased to exist.
I beg to differ on the statement “radio ceases to exist “…. fact is that the majority of people in the world listen to radio for news, be it also linked to podcasts, videos or websites.
Here on Kauai we have pirate radio of a sort of lightweight version in kkcr and we get PBS, hourly world news etc.
This case does deserve to be covered by “Amy Goodman and the War and Peace Report ” the Guardian and other slightly disguised media sources to shed light on the utter corruption and violence of Hawai’i in a “business as usual ” fashion where gangs are multiplying daily through the revolving door of the brotherhood prison system.
And I thought most folks got their news from Midweek.