Living in the globalized world we live in, we are constantly both looking for and bombarded by information crossing boarders and reaching us. We want to learn about and find out what happens in the rest of the world. We are curious. We need the knowledge to have a place in our own society. "Have you heard about the conflict in X country and the proportions it is taking?", "Did you read about the last intervention of the U.N?" Not knowing and not having an opinion about these topics to talk with our peers makes us not able to participate in daily life conversation. Therefore we are ought to know.
How many of us read a newspaper on a daily basis? Or even several newspapers. Because of the easiness of communication today, we are able to discover the reality of places that we never thought were reachable.