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turn to the Internet for news and images they cannot find in other media. Of Internet users, 24% say they have searched the Internet for news, photographs or videos that other media outlets have decided not to publish or broadcast. Overall, the Internet news audience in the US climbed from 54 million in 2002 to 92 million in 2004 (Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2004). The Internet promotes news readership due to its offering of multimedia content and through the wide range of sources available. In December 2005, another Pew report showed that 67 % of the adult American population goes online, including 68 % of men and 66 % of women with women slightly outnumbering men because they make up a greater share of the overall U.S. population. This statistic indicates that women are catching up and, in some cases, exceeding men in terms of their access to the Internet. But, the same study indicated differences in the quality of one’s usage based on gender. Men were more intense in their usage and go online in greater numbers than women for a vast, but scattered array of activities. Women outpace men for a small number of activities, including the areas of health, medicine and religion (Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2005). Further, in what could be considered an alarming trend, the study also indicated that men are more interested in technology than women, and that they are more tech savvy or comfortable in their usage of computers. Men value the Internet for the breadth of experience it offers; women value it for enriching their relationships, but they’re more concerned about its risks. Compared with women, men are more interested in the world of technology and how gadget