Hello, Volgerle.

The newscaster is probably a hint - a "news speaker" - "new speaker." The television would then a symbol for something to stimulate your translation sense. This is still the passive mode where you primarily take it in, just as TV is a passive medium. It's the precursor of an exchange - one-way.

Similarly, being an 80s newscaster could reference to an earlier, more primitive version of the same, not fundamentally different, but maybe less challenging. He also reads from paper. This might be a clue to decoding energy information packets which are often presented as books, papers, leaflets, a page you are shown. So, this looks like somebody is demonstrating how it is done - the required process of decoding - but it is still "news" to you. You need to take it in and give it time.

Being held at both sides is probably one of the more powerful ways to get one's consciousness stabilised. Two conscious entities carefully balancing your consciousness on this level of being. So, the challenge is still to hold you there and enable you to stay there to expose you (again the TV, more like passive exposure) to this level of being, to this state of consciousness. If this would have been a driving dream, you would have probably taken the backseat.

In this way I wouldn't overinterpret anything you hear or see at this stage. As you have seen I have come up with a different interpretation from yours, and while they do not exclude each other, it shows how ambiguous the information you are receiving still is. It's easy to try to "extrapolate" too much when one has too little data.

You can compare some of defectron's adventures, especially when the "apeman" character was around. When the communication sense develops initially the meaning of words can be so broad that they only roughly mark the area of interest, not a concrete word. Imagine somebody wanting to tell you about a scoop of icecream and all you receive is "sphere." This will expand over time in that terms will become clearer and also more information will come through. It's almost like triangulation, where in the later iterations you come close and closer to where you want to be, narrowing it down till you've finally "got it."

Cheers,
Oliver