Following the news is how people keep up with current events happening in our local community, in the country and around the world. But a lot news tends to get overlooked by the media here in the US if it doesn't concern the country directly. Last year the Syrian Civil War was a hot topic in the US, because of the possibility of chemical weapons being used and the news outlets in the US were constantly reporting on it. Stories from witness and the UN investigators. When the investigators were done, most of the news outlets switched to other hot topics and would barely mention the civil war happening in Syria, which still is going on to this day. Another example is Ukraine and Thailand. For the past couple months the world has been watching if Russia and Ukraine will exchange blows over the Russian occupation of Crimea, but at the same time the nation of Thailand is split between those who want to expel the current prime minster and those who want to hold and election instead. Most know of the situation in Ukraine, but it seems the news here has covered very little on the situation in Thailand. News outlets like CNN right now are hopping all over the report about the missing Malaysian airplane, but what about the various civil wars happening around the world.
I'm not saying that we need to be constantly getting news everyday about the civil war in Syria, or cover every corner of the world in popular news, because that would be very hard task to accomplish. But it does seem that the news tends to jump all over one subject while, also important issues get ignored. There is also an effect if you only have a few sources of news. After the chemical weapons issue in Syria disappeared from the news, and no major news outlet continued reporting, it felt as if the war in Syria was over.
Important events are always happening around the world and since we are not there it has little relevance to us.
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