News: it's pretty far-fetched.

Nohing beats ending a day's television watching with Nightline. The presenters are babes, the stories are quirky and the show prepares you for a fully informed sleep.

What could be better, but waking up from that fully informed sleep to empty your mind of all that information which is useless in the morning, and starting the process of filling it up with news all over again?

Not only are there more sources for news than ever before, the term 'news' itself is broader, and less easy to define than it once was.

Do you still think of a newspaper or broadcast when you think about news? Or do you picture your Twitter feed with Diplo's call for comiserations because nobody will look him in the eye with his new Zef haircut?

'News' refers to information exchanges that inform and update others about recent happenings. This definition, then, includes basically anything anyone ever says on the Internet. It's the job of the user to then filter out what 'news' is important to the individual (hello, SouljaBoy/Fabolous coke-fuelled rage, and Kanye discovering the joy of drunken Tweeting) and what is just tedious (Diddy, I'm looking at you) space-filler.

Where did this out of control desire to make news come from? Why did the News Makers not simply translate online and dominate the space as well as newsprint? It all looked so organised back in '81. Now everyone wants everybody to know everything about themselves, and likewise, we seem to want to know a fair amount about each other too.

News is realtime and includes the photos and cartoons 1981's two-hour-ten-dollar version didn't, but I believe that Presenter when she says it's all a bit far-fetched; a bit ridiculous reading it all from a screen. But that might be because she's a total babe, so I'm biased.