Did I miss something?

It’s a sort of ontological question really. Would I be any different if I didn’t listen to the ‘news’ every day? If I didn’t what actually would change, how would my sense of being be affected? With what exactly do I think the ‘news’ might connect me with—i.e. has Huw Edwards (at al) said anything that has practically improved or at least altered my personal state of being? I can’t think of anything. In our current circumstances, where broadcast useful information is short, one learns that the really useful information is indubitably what one learns from others who know from personal experience what is the best time to visit Tescos, or when to avoid numpties in the street. In one of those many lockdown interviews you can now see online, I watched an elderly Jean Luc Goddard relate how the ‘news’ need never be watched more than once a day. I ask myself why I might pay attention to it more than that. Is it some kind of self-affirmation, only to be found through the medium of a constant message which tells me that I am up to date and therefore alive? Or is it that I worry I am missing the latest piece of the puzzle, without which I will be left floating in the slipstream of society’s passing jet? As I said, it’s a kind of ontological question. Damn it, I’ve been typing away here when the News At Ten was on.