Comments on: Media Survey: Reading Is Dying In Jordan

By: Qwaider Planet

Qwaider Planet — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:46:25 +0000

Jordanian Radios Rating Results…

An interesting survey about media in jordan was illustrated and announced by Irex Jordan lately. You…

By: Hani Obaid

Hani Obaid — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:23:04 +0000

I do most of my reading online, but I still subscribe to al-ghad to combat toilet boredom – no offense intended to al-ghad, but it’s really very skimpy, and most of it is obituaries.

By: Maha

Maha — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:48:35 +0000

When was it alive laish ?

By: Ali

Ali — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:38:27 +0000

If we are a nation that doesn’t read, how on Earth are we going to succeed? My friend just got back from the Republic of Congo which was suffering from a civil war, and the first thing he noticed was that everyone reads there, and we are talking about a very primitive country.
I personaly only read the offcial government controlled papers to know who died, what job offers are out there and how good are the writers are lying in their daily columns!

I get the other infromation from the Internet or reading books and magazines,,,,,did i mention blogs as well

By: Nas

Nas — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:29:42 +0000

Hatem: in our case, it's not about how many are reading but "who" is reading. as for me, when i need career advice you'll be the first person i'll contact. bambam: i agree with you. like i said, i think the sample was too small and not over a long enough period. but i also think that based on purely observation, people do read dailies more than they watch JTV, whose viewership has declined in recent years due to satellite programming. Markus: I agree, but it's good to check the pulse of the state on issues.

By: Hala

Hala — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:09:06 +0000

It is an expected thing, studies have also shown that older people are the ones who actually buy and read newspapers while younger people stick to other sources of information.

By: Markus

Markus — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:37:56 +0000

reading al rai should not be considered reading, i would call it conditioning and programming

By: bambam

bambam — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:22:07 +0000

Radio now outranks all other modes of news, including the daily papers, magazines, and even JTV.
news ?? that was fourth with 10.4 unless you consider al-wakeel as news :S
plus they didn’t even touch on televised media at all, so saying that its even out ranks JTV is a bit of a stretch for as we know televised media is the foremost method of news acquisition in jordan, unless you have statistics to contest that.

the main pattern that i could draw from the survey was that Jordanians have short attention spans and are far too forgetful to draw any conclusions from reading or have much of a loyalty for a writer. hell the majority doesn’t find those annoying commercial text messages annoying, hell they don’t find spam annoying either jordanians are certainly a different breed

By: Adoosh

Adoosh — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:08:08 +0000

They can’t just simply ignore online media! Hello, it’s the Internet age! I read Al-Rai and Al-ghad on daily basis but can’t remember how many years passed since I bought one! And I’m sure lots of people do the same..

By: hatem abunimeh

hatem abunimeh — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:36:37 +0000

The most interesting part about the survey results was that they were not able to gauge the level of readership of the English language magazines due to the fact that the aggregate statistics they gathered all combined didn’t provide any percentage points. So I wonder how many .0 % should be for the English magazines readers .00000000000%.

Side bar note: Nas, are you sure that you are pursuing the appropriate career path?