obvious?

Surfing google news today, this headline caught my eye: "Record Percentage of Americans Use Internet for Politics".

Seriously, wouldn't it be a far bigger story if a record percentage of people weren't using the Internet for political coverage/activism? This is a medium that's been in the mainstream consciousness for barely more than a decade, and is still evolving at a pretty amazing rate (just think back to what websites looked like when Bush was first elected president). Sure, in 2004 the Internet had reached a decent level of saturation and maturity, but in the four years since it seems to me broadband has become even more ubiquitous, and more importantly, the "web 2.0" interactive philosophy - blogs, social networking, et al - has certainly become more ubiquitous. I'm sure each year since Netscape first became a household word (and quickly stopped being a household word, which dates myself horribly) the percentage of Americans using the Internet for anything has been on a steady rise.

So nearly half of our country has at least briefly checked out political coverage on an online site (I think that's what was measured, as far as I can tell from the vague way this is worded). In what way is this a news story?