Yep, also I think a lot of news is a "conversation" as an event unfolds and the one way direction of most media is outdated. With the internet we can now have

Yep, also I think a lot of news is a "conversation" as an event unfolds and the one way direction of most media is outdated. With the internet we can now have bidirectional conversation about/with the news. For example much of the political reporting and conversation is being moved to longer form chat online.