In which I rant about how the news is reported

which was key factor in our cutting the cord and one of the reasons I do not watch news on tv/internet

Tis the hysteria over nothing that blares out of the speakers.
Wolf Blitzer in particular uses such such a loud voice, but he is not alone in this.
Not mention there seems to be a need to have a couple of plastic people onscreen,to tell us what they are going to tell us, before they turn it over to someone standing around with a microphone who will tell us again what is going to be shown on the video that they told us they were going to tell us about.
Which may be an actually necessity, since anything shown on the screen is going to be blocked out by a station
ID banner on the bottom and some crap on the top of the screen, and the station logo again on the side of the screen.

Then there is the excited exaggeration of the print news.
Perfectly demonstrated by an eye catching headline this morning on the Accuweather weather page:

Tornado Destroys Dozens of Homes in Battle Ground, Washington

On the page itself is a video of the damage.
Not destruction...just some minor damage of fallen fences, a few fallen trees, one bent garage door.
Homes intact, no serious damage ( it was an F-1, and short lived) and NO "destroyed homes".
In fact, the word "destroyed" was used only once........in the headline, to make you read the article.
http://tinyurl.com/nm3mlmk

Same thing on all the tv.newspaper coverage of the storm in that area...nothing showing any destruction of homes.

This, from the same people I trust to be reliable in telling me what the weather will be.
They are not doing a very good job of that either.