Why is news so important?
You can live out your life without paying the slightest attention to the world around you. You can certainly live without knowing about every crime and violent action that has occurred anywhere in the world but has been carefully crafted to appear if it’s right next door. You can easily get by without knowing a darn thing about Kanye West, any Kardashian, Noam Chomsky’s political blather, Arthur Laffer’s economic blather, or Taylor Swift’s love life.