Again, the information gets sent straight back to their GP for immediate analysis.

BBC: RELATED BBC SITES

Fans turn to NFL Network to receive inside information and insights straight from the field, team headquarters, league offices and everywhere the NFL is making news.

ENGADGET: NFL Network and RedZone Channel coming to Time Warner Cable (Update: Officially confirmed)

As a result, people are increasingly looking to other sources of information for the straight story about what's going on, such as academic experts or even their peers through social media and the Internet.

NPR: Public Trust In Government, Business Leaders Falls

With that bit of irrelevant information, I will go straight to questions.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

But if everyone has the same level of access to your information, how do you keep the groups straight?

FORBES: Confessions of an Online Stalker

He asked his crew of engineers and physicists if they could build something that read data straight off the screen, like a camera, and then translated that information into electronic bits and sent it to the waiting IBM PC.

FORBES: How the Nasdaq Got Hacked

This survey (which the Pew people have conducted in each presidential cycle since 1996) has provided the premise for a number of news stories raising concerns about the younger generation's information diet: by getting information directly from topical comics, the metaphorical argument goes, they are skipping their spinach and going straight for the pumpkin pie.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Strange Bedfellows'

All the information gathered in Tuesday night's communication, including telemetry from Phobos-Grunt, has been passed straight to the Russians.

BBC: Signal picked up from Russia's stranded Mars probe

The system uses historical data for streets where live traffic information isn't available, and the one time I used it, I was re-routed straight into an hour-long traffic jam.

ENGADGET: IRL: Rosetta Stone, PocketWizard and the TomTom Via 1530