Good morning.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 78. Sunrise is 5:44 and sunset is 8:17, for 14 hours, 33 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 31.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1971, on Apollo 15, David Scott and James Irwin in the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
of the Apollo 15 landing site, taken by
Commander Dave Scott. Featured is the Lunar
Roving Vehicle at its final resting place after EVA-3. At the back is a rake used during the mission. Also note the red Bible atop the hand controller in the middle of the vehicle, placed there by Scott. By NASA/Dave Scott; Public Domain, Link.
Social media take crown from television:
For years, social media and video apps weren’t quite able to overtake good old television as Americans’ most-used source for news. That’s finally changed, according to Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) in its 2025 Digital News Report, out Monday.
RISJ has released a digital news report every year since 2012. This year it surveyed nearly 100,000 people in 48 countries (new this year: Serbia) about their news consumption, via a YouGov survey. Below, Nieman Lab’s team breaks out a few of the main findings. And stay tuned because we’ll be running two more pieces by RISJ researchers next week — one on local news, and one on AI and personalization.
Traditional news sources are losing influence in the United States.
For the first time, social media has displaced television as the top way Americans get news. “The proportion accessing news via social media and video networks in the United States (54%) is sharply up,” the report’s authors write, “overtaking both TV news (50%) and news websites/apps (48%) for the first time.”
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Social media — and news consumption on it — continues to splinter, according to the report. There are now six platforms with weekly news reaches of 10% or more: Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, WhatsApp, X, and TikTok. A decade ago, there were just two with double-digit reach: Facebook and YouTube.
See Staff Report, For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source (‘Plus: The pivot to video is really happening, digital subscriptions may have peaked, and other findings from RISJ’s 2025 Digital News Report’), Nieman Lab, June 16, 2025.
Sea lions dive into the sea during earthquake: