I can't stand the way local news hype and sensationalize stories

The Phoenix metropolitan is experiencing some heavy rainfall, well pretty much the entire central-northeast portion of the state but curious if it would be an all-day thing came across a very cool interactive weather map -- http://www.weather.com/maps/news/forecastsummary/uscurrentweathler_large.html. It is pretty much light-medium rain which will clear by late morning. The west part such as Glendale, Laveen, Buckeye, etc were hit the hardest. Looked at the flood alerts and road closures. They even tell you the golf & fishing conditions.

Anyways, turn on the local news to learn something new which they weren't reporting anything that I didn't learn from that site but I couldn't help but notice the way the same facts were being delivered. 2 things were they seemed to try to deviler it in the most frightening way possible and beating the Phoenix shattered the 24-hour record for rainfall (which is something that Weather channel site didn't tell me) drum over and over. While that is newsworthy, it was sensationalized.

Some are better than others, Channel 15 ABC 10pm news is the worst. The ironic thing is their tagline used to be "No chit-chat, more news" -- They certainly don't use that one anymore. I can give several examples but a few nights ago watching ABC programming, the male anchor comes in with a quick add (not a word for word quote) "A woman charged for attempted murder for driving her 3 kids into the ocean and you won't believe her excuse."

News comes on and he reports what she claimed was the reason (and the way he said it was like it was pathetic or a real reason--hard to explain) that it was low blood sugar, scoffed, mentioned 1 symptom the woman claimed from low blood sugar and moved onto the next sugar. I have low blood sugar or hypogylcemia and am very familiar w/ what it is and it seemed to be an entirely reasonable reason, it is entirely pluasable for those series of events.

I looked for the story to help me w/ this post and found (which wasn't reported by the crew) that she was at 44

Wilkerson’s blood sugar level was at 44, said Assistant Public Defender Craig Dyer. It was measured by paramedics called to the incident, he said. But a normal range would be from 70 to 110 depending on the website consulted, Dyer said.
http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20140903/NEWS/140909826/1040?p=1&tc=pg

Low 40's -- you absolutely feel like passing out but it is something that isn't well understood. W/ low blood sugar symptoms most people either think you're stupid, mentally ill, drunk, or high because the symptoms resemble mental illness. 40s are very low though, that is the pass out zone or about to need someone to hit you with the glucagon.

Just incredibly disappointed w/ the state of news in general. I do know they wouldn't be doing what they do if it didn't drive up ratings which is why I strongly prefer PBS. Aside from the way they report the news, they have much more integrity and you can rely that you'll get as much information possible to make up your own mind, and they report stories that NEED to be told. Frontline is the greatest out there, the stuff they report make my blood boil like can you believe this is going on from the NSA, flaws in forensic science, the coroner system. New Orleans was the worst. I don't understand why it isn't more popular.