Commentary on dramatic language in news reporting, an addiction to "breaking news", and an old brand name

• I would had not used words like "big", "bad", "gigantic", and "wow" to describe a series of automobile accidents on the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Wednesday of the third day of this May ("WKRG News 5 at 10"). 

• I had noticed more proclamations of "breaking news" in the first segments of recent editions of local news programs for WALA-TV and WKRG-TV in recent times (especially on Monday through Friday editions of the one that usually appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m in recent times.). For example, the first segment of the one that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV on the Wednesday of the third day of this May ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") began with an animated sequence involving the words "breaking news" and audio of one of its news presenters (Bob Grip) saying they were following "three breaking news stories" while videos related to those "stories" appeared.   

• I had noticed the name "TV5" was used in reference to a TV station in the city of Saginaw in the state of Michigan in a news report attributed to them during a visit to the official World Wide Web site WALA-TV earlier this May, since it was a brand name for WKRG-TV for many years between the calendar years 1974 and 1998. Personally I hope someone in charge of WKRG-TV decides to utilize it in their programming again (he or she could even make the name "NewsCenter 5" be the brand name for their local news operation again (coincidentally, the station in this city of Saginaw appeared to be affiliated with the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) with programming on a virtual channel 5 just like WKRG-TV. Both of them also appeared to have had the same slogan for their local news operations in recent times: "coverage you can count on".))