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?
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.
Joking aside, there are tons of solutions that monitor website changes and it's a good way to monitor news!