Everything's an emergency in USA.

[onethousandknives]

I've noticed a more recent trend here, of the news hyping up relatively minor things and making big deals out of them. On the news, if it is going to snow, it's referred to as a "winter storm emergency" or if not emergency, it's a "winter storm" and sometimes it is even named like a hurricane. Why? As a kid, I don't quite remember this, maybe this doesn't mean it didn't happen, but I more just remember "hey it's gonna snow tomorrow." Not "Winter Storm Emergency" stuff. We get 6 inches of snow and it's a "Winter Storm Emergency." OK... It'd be one thing if snow was unusual, but I live in New England and it's snowed here for at least as long as recorded history every winter. Obviously I speak of this with the context being weather, but I swear, every single news thing in USA feels like "NEXT TIME ON DRAGONBALL Z" or something with the type of alarm and drama they put into news stories that should be otherwise routine and boring. When I watch NHK or foreign news, this doesn't seem to happen. They can speak pretty plainly and matter of factly regarding events, and everything feels more or less relaxed.

Anyone else notice a bigger emergency type culture in USA occurring compared to the 90s or so? Where every weather event, every crime or whatever is an emergency?