Idle Journalism Thought: Much of the "news" today, whether text or cable TV, bends toward the apocalyptic because it has proven to be the most profitable.

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The alarmist tone is also present in the TV weather forecasts both national and local. Every approaching rain shower is now labeled as a "storm", a term that I used to see reserved for those weather events that portended actual physical damages to persons or property.