There have recently come about, questions about our orientation.
Look, I like you as a friend, but...
NOT THAT ORIENTATION, moron! We are facing toward the readers for the same reason actors in plays face the people watching.
We're nervous?
NO, you incompetent fool! Because it's impolite to not face the audience, it's standard theatre practice to talk TO the audience, as it projects your voice toward them.
Wait, we don't have voices to project... Hey, I gotta tinkie.
Hello, this is Chonny Kung, reporting live from the *insert responsible country here* where it has been learned that *afformentioned country* has been found guilty of-
...Just showing what will happen to whoever is deemed responsible...
...for this hideous act of inhumanity.
Um, as I was saying. This is horribly mutilated freak, reporting live from the glass plains of *country name*.