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Figure 2 Getting news from television alone results in lower participation in non-voting political activities
This chart illustrates that frequent followers of the news engage in more non-voting political activities than non frequent consumers. The columns show a progression of involvement in non-voting political activities from none, one, two to three, to four to six. At first, the proportion of those not engaging in non-voting political activities is higher for non frequent consumers than frequent users, with respective proportions of 65% and 47%. In the following groupings, the respective proportions are 22% and 24% who are engaged in one non-voting political activity, 12% and 22%, in two to three, 1% and 6%, in four to 6 non-voting political activities. These data are from the 2003 General Social Survey.