Larry King and Ashton Kurcher: This interview is from April, when Kurcher hit his 1,000,000 followers on Twitter. King joined Twitter: @kingsthings.

This is a UStream video of Ashton Kurcher interviewing Larry King on the new media revolution. Kurcher took Twitter questions in real time and Larry answered - for about 10 minutes. They plan an hour-long show together in the future.

Most interesting thing to me was King's comments about newspapers and the information revolution. The Twitter question came as: What do you miss the most about the way the news used to be done, and what to you like the most about the new way?

I like this because King captures a feeling many have about the physicality and the quality of newspapers, even as we see them contract. Primarily, he said he valued their in-depth nature.

King:

"The biggest, saddest thing to me is the apparent end of newspapers. The newspapers are in big trouble because of us -- CNN, MSNBC and all the rest.

"Even though it's 24-hour news, it's less in-depth. I grew up with Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite. Their stories affected things. Their documentaries changed things. Murrow ended the career of Senator McCarthy. That doesn't happen today.

"We take it in and spit it out too fast. A story at 6 is not a story at 9. When I open a newspaper to read a story, I feel the texture of it. I've lost that."

Kurcher:

"I agree that the feel of a newspaper, once you've held it, is a big deal -- the smell of it, the ink, is a different thing. However, in-depth journalism still exists..."(He notes that Twitter is like skimming the headlines of a newspaper. The Tweets are the headlines, the links lead to in-depth stories.)

Of course, that's an insufficient answer if he means the links go to newspaper stories. Fewer and fewer newspapers can afford the staff and the time for that staff to do as much in-depth coverage as we need.

On the upside of this disruptive change, King said, "I like being part of a revolution."

View the six-minute clip at here at UStream.