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Boomers still prefer print media.


As the Baby Boomer baby boomer also ba·by-boom·er
n.
A member of a baby-boom generation.

Noun 1. baby boomer - a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s; "they expanded the schools for a generation of baby boomers"
boomer
 moves into your facility, don't throw the out the newspaper yet. Although the nation's older tech elite love high-tech gadgets, when it comes to getting their daily news, they still want it in print more than anything else.

According to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 a report due this fall from Washington, D.C.-based Pew PEW. A seat in a church separated from all others, with a convenient space to stand therein.
     2. It is an incorporeal interest in the real property. And, although a man has the exclusive right to it, yet, it seems, he cannot maintain trespass against a person
 Internet and American Life Project, 60 percent of those persons ages 42 to 62 prefer to read a newspaper, while 42 percent would rather read news online. By comparison, 42 percent of the younger tech crowd, ages 18 to 29, read a newspaper, while 39 percent go online for the latest.

John Horrigan, Pew's senior research specialist, said the pattern represents social conditioning Social conditioning refers to the sociological phenomenological process of inheriting tradition and gradual cultural transmutation passed down through previous generations. . When the 50-year-old high-techs were learning to gather information, they went to the library, he said. The younger crowd does everything electronically.
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Publication:Contemporary Long Term Care
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Oct 1, 2003
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