Constant “News”

It is worth considering the emotional and mental immediacy of the “news”. [You realize it is simply the plural of “new”.)
It was some three weeks before “news”‘ of the (in)famous Lisbon Earthquake in November 1, 1755 was reacted to so deeply personally by the 6 year old Goethe in his leading-family home in Frankfurt-am-Main.
The first live radio broadcast from Europe (Murrow, Shirer, et al) via London of an eyewitness account of the Nazi entrance into Vienna Austria (“Anschluss”) was on March 12, 1938.
The first TV news broadcast was March 1940 in Schenectady, New York, with very limited viewers.
It was June 1, 1980 that CNN in Atlanta introduced “24-hour News” to the world.
Now our lives are impacted
(haunted when we sleep), when we attend (or not attend) news to the minute, to the second. It has now become immediate to most of our lives: 24/7/365, and pretty much global.