I didn't know about the crisis on the Poland-Belarus border[0] until half way through because I wasn't paying attention to the news in Hungary (a very pro-Polan

I didn't know about the crisis on the Poland-Belarus border[0] until half way through because I wasn't paying attention to the news in Hungary (a very pro-Poland and anti-"migrant" country) and then was surprised by it when I went to Germany and randomly picked up a newspaper. Which is only to say: in addition to the "what is relevant to whom" problem, a lot of times we are just focused on other things, and news sites are not going to find us. Not even hypothetically perfect ones that send us emails about the things we really care about, because sometimes we are going to be busy with work or family or whatever and tune out the constant stream of news alerts. Instead we will rely, as people have for a long long time, on other folks telling us if something really important is afoot. In a way -- counterintuitively? -- this is an argument for watching the Evening News as a sort of information-gathering ritual, just because it's harder to tune out. When I was a kid we always caught the news and the weather. One doesn't need to do that anymore, but maybe it's the better paradigm? You sit there, you chat about something else, you half-listen, but when Dennis Richmond[1] says the alien invasion is on, you're going to hear it. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Belarus–European_Union_border_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Belarus–European_Union_bo... [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-Kt-F5CFQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-Kt-F5CFQ [Edit: it's debatable whether this was a "refugee" crisis so I removed that word.]