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title: "Squawk Box"
description: "Most Americans still get general information about the economy from the television and radio."
date: "2009-08-03"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2009/08/03/squawk-box/"
---

# Squawk Box

While seven-in-ten Americans use the internet to get some form of recession-related material, when it comes to general economic information broadcast media is king. Fully 84% get general economic information from television and radio; fewer than half use the internet. Among those with broadband connections at home the internet (67%) matches newspapers and magazines (67%) as a source for personal and global financial information but still lags well behind broadcast media (85%). But the desire for online information is not very intense. Among online adults, only 18% say they search for recession-related material once a day, while about half of internet users get such information every few days or less. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/1281/internet-source-economic-recession-news-and-advice)