Media Influence on our concept of the weather

Over the last few years, the media has been treating storms much differently. They use sensational adjectives. Terrible, the worst, winter blast, blasted, unheard of, bitter cold. A common two each snowstorm is treated as if it was anomaly. There are many storms going all the time in different parts of the world. After hearing this many times a day one starts believing that the weather is worse than what it was years ago.