Newspaper. What's your Style?

As I skimmed my Facebook news-feed, I noticed a post from The New York Times Columnist, David Carr, on a recent article published by Forbes titled "The Media Map: Who's Reading What and Where." 

Of course me, being an amateur social critic, was quite intrigued by Carr's recent post, so I decided to click and review. 

As I reviewed this media map, I could help to notice that a almost 30% of the U.S. prefers to read USA Today as oppose to The New York Times. Other popular pictorial style news outlets ranked on this map were some like the Huffington Post and The Onion. USA Today, Huffington Post and The Onion whereas other more credible news sources didn't appear to be as popular. 

With the slight exception of USA Today, news outlets such as The Onion are very modern filled with pictures, gossip and entertainment and not relevant news. They make magazines for such news called tabloids. 

To bring everything to a local level, USA Today is read by the majority of North Carolina, as well as other southern and western states in the U.S. Does this mean that these states are more interested in the pictorial style of newspapers?

Some would argue (Neil Postman) that this could very well mean that we are "Amusing Ourselves to Death." [product placement]

Are we the type of people where pictures are more communicative then a well-written article?

Forbes Website of Media Map http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2012/media-map.html