I do take seriously the business about new media's threat to what we might call "the national conversation".

It was crime that led the nightly news and the national conversation.

Call them the "suppose we had a national conversation on race and nobody came?"

This is an opportunity for the national conversation to begin.

"It was a strong voice in the culture, part of the national conversation."

"I think that I'm in some ways the last person who needs to be having a national conversation about this."

Because of its great size, California is likely to set the stage for a national conversation about health care this year.

Maybe it's the kind of national conversation you've always wanted.

And we already have way too much of that in the national conversation.

Today, real estate often seems to be topic A in the national conversation.