The Correlation Between Newsworthy Matters and Memory Recall

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So as mentioned in perhaps my previous discussions or maybe my responses to various posts, we don't have cable TV and we listen to news reports on our local channels. I'm OK with that. However, when we had cable TV we could listen to detailed business reports by Bloomberg or CNBC, and of course, we could get the “fake news” put out by CNN. (It's a joke people. Laugh!) Anyway … long story short. My kids fixed our PS3 so that we can get YouTube. I noticed on the YT screen these little “red boxes” and one of them said “NEWS”. Yesterday, I decided to give it a try and see if I could listen to a “live news stream”. There is a stream called “SkyNews” and it's kind of thorough reporting and rather diversified (meaning it's not just American news). Now I want you to know that I watched and/or listened to several reports. I'm sure they were about current American politics, and other important and significant events going around the world. After all of my concern and worry that I might be missing out on something because we don't get the news via cable TV ... can somebody please tell me why when I try to recall the reports I heard yesterday, I can only remember the one about the deer??!!! Yes! There was a report about a deer that got stuck on the ice and couldn't get up. A animal rescue team had to save the deer. I can remember that report right down to the blue blanket the rescue team used to help slide that poor creature off the ice and send him (or her) back into the forest. First: Who even decided that the report about a deer being trapped on the ice was even newsworthy? Second: Why is it that it's the only report I can actually recall from all of that other stuff I watched and listened to yesterday? Who decides what's newsworthy; and what is it in my brain that decides which news reports are worth recalling??