How important news is too you depends on your relationship to where the news is coming from. In times of disaster, we pay greater attention to those places we a

How important news is too you depends on your relationship to where the news is coming from. In times of disaster, we pay greater attention to those places we are most familiar with, or emotionally attached to. Before email was so prevalent, my mother said the same thing when me and my siblings went travelling overseas for months at a time without calling. Now, she's in contact with us a few times a week and acting as the central news source for us all. So of course: if one of us was in a country that was having some "news" she'd pay extra attention and reach out to share what's going on with us and the entire family.