When I was a kid in grade school, my dad came to speak to my class about his job as a television news producer.
He began by drawing a big circle in the center of the blackboard.
“This,” he said, “is a big news event. It’s a massive earthquake, it’s a flood, it’s a fire, it’s a volcano erupting.”
“Now,” he said, as he began drawing lots of big arrows shooting away from the circle, “this is what most normal people do. They run away from that thing. They move to safety.
“But this,” he said, as he started to draw little arrows going toward the circle, “is what journalists do. They go there to learn about what’s going on, so they can tell the world about it. That way, everybody doesn’t have to stick around and find out for themselves.”