Sydney's Response to Current Events

I was looking at my classmate's blogs when I came across Sydney's blog about current events http://sydneyblocker.blogspot.com/. She makes a great point when she says we never talk about what relevance this has to us. When I look over the news everyday I see plenty of news articles obviously but do I necessarily remember them? No, because unless it is relevant to me, it very easily goes in one ear and out the other. I understand that it's part of our grade to watch, listen, and read the news, but it would certainly be great to know how some of the news affects us like she mentioned.