Opinion: From ‘sound bytes’ to ‘eye bytes,’ news consumption changing for younger generations

Barth Keck is an English teacher and assistant football coach who also teaches courses in journalism and media literacy at Haddam-Killingworth High School. Email Barth here

A recent Quinnipiac University poll that found 29 percent of American voters see Fox News as “the most trusted” source for network and cable news coverage was not surprising since it’s not the first time that’s happened.

But the poll piqued my curiosity regarding my own Media Literacy students’ news preferences, so I decided to query these 12th graders.

Using the website Poll Everywhere, my students responded via cell phone to questions on the SMART Board where, almost immediately, results appeared.

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