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I noticed almost every ones blog I read made a comment about how at home they got the news a lot from their parents. Often times people either listened to the radio when someone was driving them to school or their parents actually subscribed to a physical news paper. I'm the same way. I thought it was really interesting how many peoples parents listened to news on the way to school. 
One difference I noticed is some people, not a lot but a few, actually do read the news paper sites. I'm not saying it's a bad thing I'm just saying it's unusual for people our age with such busy lives to go to news sites. I think it's different to actually go to a news website then to get push notifications on your phone from a news site. A lot of people get breaking news texts or notifications on their phone but even with this we only get the big stories and not the smaller less intriguing stories.  It seemed like with this, everyone liked the immediacy of getting news from social media. It gets posted as it happens so we don't have to wait for a news story to write the story, get it edited, then publish it. It's just unedited straight to the point thoughts. 
Now it seems like almost everyone gets their news from social media. Almost everyone on a college campus has a Facebook and everyone has interests about something or other and is probably going to post something at some point that someone else will later read and become more informed. A lot of people are getting informed from reading other peoples posts. I thought this was pretty cool how we're all helping each other become civicly literate. 
I think Hedges and Carr would think it's not really a good thing that we're starting to get all our news from the internet because it's changing us and making us less literate and incapable of reading an actual paper. On the other hand, I think Sullivan would appreciate it and think it's a good thing that the internet is helping us and even though we're getting information a different way, we're still getting it and that's what is important. He would also appreciate the raw and immediacy of social media news.