Local news, you suck too (except yours, Tamara dear)

Sometimes I forget sometimes that my major source of news is the internet. I made the mistake of watching the local Fox affiliate's news tonight. Good grief, when did the quality of news drop so steeply that even the most simple of events are teased to be major disasters. "It might be the most DANGEROUS THING IN THE WORLD, AND IT MIGHT BE IN YOUR HOUSE!!!" So you sit there, thinking "Is it peanut butter?" They think that only things are happening right now, as if for the first time to "make" the news. Like when these idiots go out on a live remote at an expressway in Portland when it's snowing and say something like "What IS this white stuff falling from the sky?!?! Are the gods angry with us!?!?!". Gee, it's only been snowing in Portland in the winter for what...10,000 years or so?