Scott Lurndal wrote:

Look. You got four, maybe five 24-hour news networks with 1440
minutes to fill each and every day. If you don't have viewers, you
don't have ratings and you don't get advertisers to fill 20 minutes
per hour of commercials. So everything becomes a crisis.


Uh, the news shows didn't create the "crisis," nor do they use the word to
describe the situation when a better word would do.

The network newscasters are merely quoting the President of the United
States. If you think the word "crisis" is extreme, send a note to the White
House.