I’m sure we all got a few… 
My biggest one was Baby Jessica. So a two year-old falls down a well! Does that mean we need to have wall-to-wall coverage on this, CNN???
Also, the never ending stream of “Missing white woman!” stories. Ugh, just stop it, willya?
Kim Kwhatever…
Honey Booboo’s skankie mama
Man, you’re still irritated about something that happened 27 years ago?
I’m more irritated than anything about the coverage that the news media gives to things like school shootings, hostage situations, abductions and the like.
It makes it seem like those things are common, when they’re really extraordinarily uncommon, and skews people’s risk assessments as a result. For example, people go about their lives seriously worried about school shootings, when in fact, they’re not particularly common.
Also, the coverage makes them seem more attractive to the unhinged sorts that might do something like a school shooting.
Back in the day, something like this might be on the local news live, and on the national news in the evening, or might be a second-page newspaper article if not. Nowadays, it’s the prime story on what seems like every network, website, etc… even when it’s half a world away.
Tom Brady’s pre-Superbowl cold. The guy’s in his 30s and in great shape. A cold is not going to kill him. AND he has access to the top docs in Boston. AND, he’ll be over it by the time the Superbowl happens, since colds last 3-7 days, tops.
Basically all entertainment news annoys me. I also don’t care about Kanye and Kim. Or Bruce Jenner. Or anyone who’s ever been a “real housewives of…”
InflateGate.
Along the same lines as what bump says: avian flu/swine flu/ebola/whatever. A few people get sick, and the media goes off the rails as if it’s The Return of the Bubonic Plague. The “epidemic” quickly fades, and in the meantime people worldwide are convinced it’s the end of civilization as we know it.
I actually sent a letter to one of the radio news network to complain when they mentioned something about Dancing with the Stars on the morning news. I don’t recall now whether it was the start of a season or someone had one or survived a cut or some such nonsense. Whatever the fuck it was, it was NOT news worthy.
I hate the news stories that report about some preliminary medical study. “A study published in the Lancet shows a link between volleyball and erectile dysfunction.” You never see the story three years later about the more extensive study that showed no link.
Infuriated me beyond all measure, especially when it was the lead story on NBC. All the frenzy over a snow storm is another. Recently, Williams kept talking about the deluge on the west coast, and included Oregon and Washington in his bullshit. For Oregon it was just another rain storm, and not a particularly bad one.
Didn’t bother me in the least… I just watched the snowstorm footage and thought “Man, it’s sure cool to be wearing shorts in February.”, seeing as it was like 74 and 77 on Sunday and Monday of this week.
My parents wanted to engage me in discussion about Michael Moore, when he said something about American Sniper and snipers being cowards. They had heard about it on the news.
Guy that most people hate said something most people disagree with. This is not news 
You already did my job here. I’m done.
Bruce Jenner’s sex change.
Most things said by Sarah Palin, except that last word salad speech of hers. That should be on endless loop.
I think shootings are blown far out of proportion, and also, we are giving the shooter what he wants with the non-stop media coverage.
Also, stop hyping Noreasters. Us New Englanders are used to them.
Any news item where somebody “Speaks Out” or otherwise “Breaks Their Silence.”
“[Female celebrity] Stuns In [her choice of clothing]!”
Yes! A thousand times, this. (Ask my husband. I have bitched about it literally a thousand times). 
When I was a kid and they were just called storms. No nor’easters, no polar vortex, no named no storms.
No offense to Dallas, but daytime network news channels seem to love to cut to breaking stories of high speed chases, and they seem to nearly always happen in Dallas, with an occasional LA chase thrown in.
A car jacker running from the law is not news and not interesting.
Weather stories where they have to specifically mention the east coast, because they’re oh so special. Something like “A cold air mass will bring freezing temperatures to most of the country, including New York!”