Gripe Of The Day: "Special Reports"

I'd like to gripe about those annoying so called, "Special Reports" that our local news programs just love cutting off our favorite shows to advise us about. The first and most common kind of Special Report is the Weather Alert. Unless a tornado mysteriously appeared out of no where and is less that 5 minutes away from a residential area, why is it necessary to interrupt a TV show to announce it? TELL US DURING THE COMMERCIAL OR POST IT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN (SCROLL BAR)!!! Then there is the extremely unnecessary report about someone's freakin' house burning to a crisp or a business. Again; why is this so important that everything everyone is doing needs to stop?! SAVE IT FOR THE COMMERCIAL BREAK!!!! Then there are the Amber Alerts. How likely is it that if I'm sitting at home watching TV that I'm going to run across this missing kid? NOT VERY! SAVE IT FOR THE COMMERCIAL.

Perhaps the most annoying things about these program interruptions is the fact that the local station makes no attempt to make up for it by rebroadcasting the lost episode or at the very least, picking it up from the point they cut in at.

If this crap is so important that it requires a "Special Report," why not interrupt the commercial break for it? They don't because those reports aren't that important that they are willing to lose a dollar over them. Anywho, that's my grip.