When Lennon & McCartney wrote the famous line "I read the news today, oh boy" way back in 1967 the chances are it would have been in the pages of a newspaper. If they had been penning that lyric today, then "the news" could have come from Twitter, Facebook, a mobile app, a YouTube video, or a link to a website anywhere in the world.
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