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Young people in Great Britain are watching accordingactivelyattentionaveragebodycommentscomplicatedcontentdistractionshabitsincreasinglylesslikelyprimaryprogrammeresearchsmartphonessurprisewayworth and less news on television. This is accordingactivelyattentionaveragebodycommentscomplicatedcontentdistractionshabitsincreasinglylesslikelyprimaryprogrammeresearchsmartphonessurprisewayworth to Ofcom, a regulatory accordingactivelyattentionaveragebodycommentscomplicatedcontentdistractionshabitsincreasinglylesslikelyprimaryprogrammeresearchsmartphonessurprisewayworth that oversees broadcasting practices in the UK. This comes as no accordingactivelyattentionaveragebodycommentscomplicatedcontentdistractionshabitsincreasinglylesslikelyprimaryprogrammeresearchsmartphonessurprisewayworth as young people become increasingly addicted to their accordingactivelyattentionaveragebodycommentscomplicatedcontentdistractionshabitsincreasinglylesslikelyprimaryprogrammeresearchsmartphonessurprisewayworth. Youth are opting for online accordingactivelyattentionaveragebodycommentscomplicatedcontentdistractionshabitsincreasinglylesslikelyprimaryprogrammeresearchsmartphonessurprisewayworth like YouTube videos, social media and games rather than switch on a TV and watch a news accordingactivelyattentionaveragebodycommentscomplicatedcontentdistractionshabitsincreasinglylesslikelyprimaryprogrammeresearchsmartphonessurprisewayworth. Britain's Guardian newspaper reported that: "The youth of the nation are more accordingactivelyattentionaveragebodycommentscomplicatedcontentdistractionshabitsincreasinglylesslikelyprimaryprogrammeresearchsmartphonessurprisewayworth to get their day's news about the world from social media or by reading graffiti in bus stations than seeing it on the telly, with the accordingactivelyattentionaveragebodycommentscomplicatedcontentdistractionshabitsincreasinglylesslikelyprimaryprogrammeresearchsmartphonessurprisewayworth 16-24-year-old watching just two minutes' accordingactivelyattentionaveragebodycommentscomplicatedcontentdistractionshabitsincreasinglylesslikelyprimaryprogrammeresearchsmartphonessurprisewayworth of live TV news per day."

Ofcom commissioned accordingactivelyattentionaveragebodycommentscomplicatedcontentdistractionshabitsincreasinglylesslikelyprimaryprogrammeresearchsmartphonessurprisewayworth into the news-viewing accordingactivelyattentionaveragebodycommentscomplicatedcontentdistractionshabitsincreasinglylesslikelyprimaryprogrammeresearchsmartphonessurprisewayworth of people around the country. The report is called "News Consumption in the UK: 2019". The research suggests that young people are accordingactivelyattentionaveragebodycommentscomplicatedcontentdistractionshabitsincreasinglylesslikelyprimaryprogrammeresearchsmartphonessurprisewayworth using social media as their accordingactivelyattentionaveragebodycommentscomplicatedcontentdistractionshabitsincreasinglylesslikelyprimaryprogrammeresearchsmartphonessurprisewayworth news source. Researchers wrote: "There is evidence that UK adults are consuming news more accordingactivelyattentionaveragebodycommentscomplicatedcontentdistractionshabitsincreasinglylesslikelyprimaryprogrammeresearchsmartphonessurprisewayworth via social media." They reported an increase in posts and accordingactivelyattentionaveragebodycommentscomplicatedcontentdistractionshabitsincreasinglylesslikelyprimaryprogrammeresearchsmartphonessurprisewayworth on Facebook and Twitter about the news compared to last year. Ofcom suggested presenting news stories in a less accordingactivelyattentionaveragebodycommentscomplicatedcontentdistractionshabitsincreasinglylesslikelyprimaryprogrammeresearchsmartphonessurprisewayworth, more accessible accordingactivelyattentionaveragebodycommentscomplicatedcontentdistractionshabitsincreasinglylesslikelyprimaryprogrammeresearchsmartphonessurprisewayworth to attract young people's accordingactivelyattentionaveragebodycommentscomplicatedcontentdistractionshabitsincreasinglylesslikelyprimaryprogrammeresearchsmartphonessurprisewayworth. Some people suggested this would be "dumbing down accordingactivelyattentionaveragebodycommentscomplicatedcontentdistractionshabitsincreasinglylesslikelyprimaryprogrammeresearchsmartphonessurprisewayworth for young audiences".