using broadcasts sports/news/entertainment/business, etc,for the
attachment of your
micro social meme to send to others by non verbal
facial expressions of knowing/understanding/empathy .
We knew there was underground revolutionary activity going on
Tehran that was mostly whispered about by teenage girls but you could tell the newscasters IE, Stewart/Colbert/Maddow all knew something was going on in a empathetic relay/
semiotic subtext.