The New "Journalism"
In Lemon's piece, he's reading the "black hole" question from a tweet.
In the above examples, is it dain-bread reporters or the severely clueless general public feeding them? i.e. "Today" now has an "Orange Room" where they take comments and questions from the Interweb.
In another CNN piece, the talking head is "telling" Schiavo and Abend what happened and basically only allowing them a "yes" answer, not letting the experts postulate.
I eagerly await the transcendence of the Internet so we may channel (pun intended) Cronkite.