ABSTRACT
People are interested in news. Whether the news comes from other people or from the mass media, we like to know what’s going on—in faraway places or in our neighborhood—we want to be in the know. Of course not everyone is equally interested in general news, and people may be more interested in one topic than another. But an underlying interest is there. How could people fail to attend to an earthquake in their region, or to a cure for cancer or AIDS?
