media correspondent for mpr and in the studio, rosie gray, christina warren and hunter walker. first to you, who is benefiting most from these trends involving mobile media. all media has to fit on this small screen. >> it's a huge percentage of who looks at our site. >> you say because it's easy to scroll through lists on a phone because you produce it for the phone? >> we don't necessarily produce things just to be looked at on mobile. that's something that we keep in mind when we are producing what we do. >> i'm surprised by how much tv is watched on mobile phones. it's not the most comfortable experience. if this is the only screen you have, it's good enough. >> more than that, when you talk about whether it's a phone or tablet, when it's in front of your face, it's not that different from a viewing perspective than if you have something 10 or 15 feet away. convenience is the big thing. you take the locational aspect of having to be at home away from it and i can be on the train catching up on cnn. >> these are trends we talk about every week. it's worth reflecting on how f

often when you slice a steak, the outside is brown, you see a layer of gray meat, and then the inside is rosy> that is beautiful. that is not too rare for you? >> no. >> you would cringe if i told you i ate my meat well done, right? >> you would have less benefit from this technique if it is cooked beyond recognition. >> for his french fries, nathan found this machine designed for blasting dirt particles from fine jewelry. >> put it in for just a moment. feel that tingling? >> i do. >> it starts tearing the potato up. and the more it tears the potato up, the crispier the french fry gets. you won't find any burger joint that has these fries, but maybe some day you will. >> now the moment of truth. >> wow. those french fries are great. really, really, really good. >> in case you couldn't tell, nathan isn't a newcomer to this field. during his tenure at microsoft, he worked nights as a chef. >> have you always been into cooking? >> when i was nine years old, i told my mother i was going to cook thanksgiving dinner and she couldn't come in the kitchen at all. i got cook books and i did it. i do a

gray the she tweeted something inside of the hearing several months ago and at this point the politicians had to fully conversation and in fact their communications professionals are very good at it. rosie tweets criticism or treats his suggestiosuggestio n that they are avoiding a sensitive topic in the bring and barbara mikulski picks up her black very looks at it and starts yelling at rosie from the dais. my heart almost stopped as we were watching it. but it just marks the social conversation has become the central political conversation and i guess, which i just think is kind of a fact, love it or hate it. i guess the argument i would make is the basic kinds of things that people want to share and news primarily travels on twitter. some of this is also true for facebook but there's also tons of other things that travel on facebook. the kinds of things that people like to share that you see people share on twitter are basically the kinds of things that most of us got into this business to do which is to get scoops into did the original reporting, smart analysis and the angst you don't see people sharing like here's an aggregated version of the story someone wrote two hours ago which