Study: Young men prefer games to newspapers
Here’s a real nonshocker – young men would rather spend time with video games than newspapers and magazines. A new study by Knowledge Networks/SRI finds that video games have become the No. 4 medium among men 18-34, knocking print media out of its slot behind TV, radio and the internet. Men 18-34 spend 6 percent of their day with video games, as opposed to 3 percent for newspapers and 2 percent for magazines. Adults 12-64 spend just 3 percent of their media time with video games while male teens 12-17 spend 15 percent. TV led all demos with at least a 40 percent share, though it was lowest among men 18-34 at 42 percent. Male teens spent the least time of the three with radio at 17 percent.

Chinese report big web site boom since '02
With approximately 70 million internet users, China is second only to the U.S. in terms of people online. And the world’s most populous nation also is in the midst of a major internet boom with roughly 600,000 approved web sites by the end of 2003. This is a 60 percent increase from 2002, according to state media. According to a report by the government-affiliated China Internet Network Information Center, about 90 percent of the web sites came from China’s eastern, northern and southern provinces and few were from the economically poor western region. The online outbreak is a double-edged sword for the Chinese government, which encourages people to be more tech-savvy without assuming too many foreign ideas or spreading anti-government messages. Internet users have been jailed for posting articles critical of the strict government.     

DA candidates say their porn isn't really theirs
When porn shows up on your computer and you’re running for office, what to do? Accuse a faceless person of breaking and downloading. A couple of Mesa County (Colo.) district attorney candidates claim their homes were broken into to plant pornography on their computers. Ann Duckett and John Moore didn’t report the malicious incidents to the sheriff’s department, they say, because Sheriff Stan Hilkey has endorsed the incumbent prosecutor, Pete Hautzinger. Duckett said in a letter to Hautzinger that on March 24, she realized someone must have broken into her house and left a pornographic file on her computer. Moore echoed her sentiments, saying he had found something similar at his home Monday. As a Republican, Moore would face Hautzinger in a primary. Duckett is an independent. Hautzinger forwarded Duckett’s letter to authorities because it reported a crime. She declined to be interviewed by investigators because she saw a conflict in the matter. All politics aside, Hilkey said it was offensive to suggest that the department doesn’t possess the integrity to handle a burglary.