NOTE: DOES OBAMA THINK MY FELLOW BLOGGERS & I ARE GOING TO 'LAY DOWN' AND ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN? NOT ON YOUR LIFE!!Personal blogsites are becoming increasingly more common on the Internet, but just 11% of Americans believe that the government should regulate their content.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 66% of adults oppose federal government regulation of the sites. Twenty-three percent (23%) are not sure.
Support for regulation is higher among those 50 and older. There are virtually no partisan differences on this question.
The Federal Trade Commission this week released new guidelines requiring bloggers to disclose any gifts or payments they get from companies for reviewing their products, and Americans are more comfortable with that kind of regulation.
Forty-five percent (45%) think such a requirement is a good idea, but 32% oppose it. Twenty-three percent (23%) are undecided.
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Just 10% of Americans say that they or a family member have their own blogsite on the Internet. Eighty-three percent (83%) do not.
Twenty percent (20%) of all adults say they regularly read blogsites for news and information. Seventy-seven percent (77%) do not regularly check blogsites.
Adults under the age of 40 are more likely to check blogsites for news than their elders.
Only 28% of adults say they are at least somewhat confident in the reliability of news reports from bloggers and Internet journalists, up very slightly form a survey in mid-August. But just two percent (2%) are very confident in them. Forty-three percent (43%) are not very confident in such news reports, with 17% not at all confident.
Paralleling similar previous findings that spell trouble for traditional news operations, younger Americans have more confidence in online news reports than their elders do.
Fifty-two percent (52%) of all Americans say they go online and use the Internet every day or nearly every day, and most of those adults now find online reporting comparable to that in their local newspaper.
Sixty-one percent (61%) of Americans are confident that online and other news sources will make up the difference and report things people want to know about if many newspapers go out of business.
Forty-five percent (45%) of Internet users say a plan by at least one major news organization to charge for online content is likely to hurt the newspapers in question financially.
Indicative of Americans’ increasing reliance on the Internet for information is the finding that 83% of voters say legislation should be posted online in final form and available for everyone to read before Congress votes on it.
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