You’re asking the same question, but in a leading way. I’m not even sure what you’re trying to imply here. >To answer your own question for the sake of contras

You’re asking the same question, but in a leading way. I’m not even sure what you’re trying to imply here. >To answer your own question for the sake of contrast, it's not strange that provincials would know about the events in NYC. It is a large, important city. NYC is the financial capital of the US so of course important news out of NYC may be important elsewhere. However, a random act of subway violence is not important national news. Given the volume of subway riders I would argue that it is not even important local news.