Highly doubt it will go unnoticed since it's election year. Hopefully the media will be all over it no matter what.
As far as I can tell, there is no easy way to do this. Is there?
Joking aside, there are tons of solutions that monitor website changes and it's a good way to monitor news!
It does a decent job of pushing updates to news stories. I do wish they'd set their website up so you could actually follow the stream of stories they post rather than relying on their twitter account to post the links.