I absolutely agree. A while back they had a story about removing a giant beehive from a tree. The reporter had to use puns, and numerous “b” words emphasizing the “b” as “bee”. For example, “now we are BEE-ginning the removal process. We don’t know if the bees will BEE-have.” I prayed for them to be Africanized bees and to all attack that guy, unfortunately my prayers did not come true. They also murdered all the bees at a time when we are having a serious bee shortage.
The above mentioned reporter is also involved another major peeve of mine; hurricane reporting. During previous hurricanes he made a point of saying “hunker down” about once per sentence. He also was always standing out in the storm. How stupid do you look when you tell people to “hunker down” and then you stand out in the middle of a category 3 storm? The local reporters also seem disappointed when we don’t get hit hard by a storm but they still manage to add enough special reports so we don’t forget how much helpful information they can give us if we had actually been hit by a storm.
I also hate those promos, “A common household item could kill you, be sure to watch our special report on the Friday 11pm news.”. This usually airs on Tuesday so you have to wait 4 days to find out how something in your house is going to kill you. If you are still alive and tune in on Friday, they will have a quick report at 11:29 about something like how drain cleaner is really dangerous and you shouldn’t drink it.