Most people under forty now encounter news on social platforms rather than by choosing a newspaper or a bulletin. This changes what reaches them. A feed is ordered by what holds attention, so stories that provoke a strong reaction travel further than those that merely inform, whatever their importance. Readers also lose the sense of a front page, which used to tell them what an editor thought mattered most that day. The result is an audience that sees more news than before and has less idea how much any of it matters.