Poor News Judgement

Recently, Egypt is in chaos, due to protesters. I'm not gonna lie, I barely know anything about it. The only news I do know is that it's because they're sick of their current president/prime minister/etc and want a new one. And I was watching an Arabic news channel (My parents speak Arabic and are from Syria so we just have an international satellite thing), and the streets were a mess and everything was going wrong and chaotic. But do you want to know what my local (NYC area) news covers?
Snow. Honestly. They act like we live in Hawaii or Ecuador or the Equator or something, and we've never seen the snow before. 75% of nights from December until March have news people end their broadcasts with 'And for tomorrow's big storm, we're extending our coverage! Now you can find out all of your snow related details from 4:30 in the morning!'. Honestly, just tell us if we're getting school off, if the public transportation is screwed up, and what roads are actually plowed.
I admit, this year the snow is way more (Currently, my lawn's snow goes up to my knee, but I'm not too tall, so that doesn't say much) and I haven't seen grass since Christmas, but they're acting like the people who watch their news are too stupid to get a shovel, snow plow machine thing, or salt and wear boots that aren't Uggs. Also, my household gives them 1 more viewer, but that's because most of the Arabic TV stations are a mess over the Egypt crisis and cable daytime shows suck. And the local news people shouldn't have a right to be on past 8 or 9 in the morning. Part of me just thinks that they have nobody to go home to and kill time at their studio.
But seriously. We don't need this much coverage for snow! Just tell people to dress in layers and problem solved. I was watching one story about how people can't walk because of the city's poor shoveling stuff, but the people were dressed in heels, boots and dress shoes. You don't go out in like 20 inch snow dressed up for prom! And it's always 'snow-pocalypse' now. Every week, there's a storm that's going to be horrendous! 5 weeks in a row? I don't think so.
And then my Dad and Aunt brought up a valuable point: Why are they complaining about what to do with all this snow when other places (IE Canada) have it worse and they never complain?
I don't even want to know what's going to happen to all this snow once it melts. Floods? Or a cycle of melted snow -> ice -> melted snow -> ice that doesn't evaporate?
Oh, and then the whole Jersey Shore going to Italy 'story'. Hey Italy, you spawned them! Suck it up!