Roy Greenslade
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/ 19 November 2004

Internet cannibalism grows

The shift from reading newspapers to surfing the net appears to be speeding up. A study of declining circulation figures and the statistics that show the increasing use of newspaper websites suggests that the switch from print to screen is happening more swiftly than web missionaries might have predicted. People of all ages are becoming used to obtaining not only breaking news through their computers but also analysis of, and comment on, the day’s main stories.