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TV news anchors can breathe a sigh of relief everywhere: a recent survey found that local and national TV news programs are more popular than online news.

According to the Pew Research Center and American Life Project’s survey, almost everybody (92%) gets their news from multiple platforms. For 78%, that includes local news; national news — including both cable news like CNN and network broadcast news — comes in at 73%; online news manages 61%; radio sneaks away with 54%; local newspapers snag 50%; and national newspapers like USA Today get only 17%.

So, what have we learned? While print journalism might still be suffering a long-impending death, at least people get their news from multiple platforms, which include the ever-increasing online news and good, old-fashioned TV news.

Read all the findings in the full article.

Why are local TV news stations more popular than local online news? Any ideas, readers?

Tiger Woods publicly apologized to the nation today.

Tiger Woods gave his non-press conference this morning, and TV news stations and radio stations across the country broadcast his public apology across the nation.

But did this help him…or hurt him?

TV and radio commentators and millions of bloggers are ready to pounce with their reactions. And here’s a sampling of feelings felt around the world: some people felt the apology was sincere, some felt it was arrogant, some felt it was too long and redundant.

Was this a good move for Tiger? If we think about it from a business perspective, yes, it was.

Whenever anything negative happens to a company, the situations that were diffused fastest were when CEOs or an executive publicly apologized and answered questions. JetBlue, Toyota…it’s happened to the best of companies out there.

This situation is different, obviously, since Tiger is a person, not a company, and the press weren’t allowed to ask any questions at this conference. So what do readers think? How did you feel about this public apology, an effort to “save” Tiger’s brand?