Making Sense; Making Noise

We've received some odd information from our local weather people lately. Regarding this evening's lunar eclipse, for example, we've been helpfully informed that it is NOT necessary to wear protective eye wear to observe a lunar eclipse... in fact, they said, you can look at the moon with your bare eyes. Amazing. Good to know. And the other day we were warned (not just once but twice!) not to 'rest on your laurels' because the good weather wouldn't last and icy conditions were expected to return. Perhaps we shouldn't 'let down our guard' but I really don't see how 'laurels' - either theirs or ours - came into play there... Although, now that I think about it, they also claimed to have"'brought the snow level down for you this evening" - not, in the first place, that we wanted them to, but also not that we really think THEY can rest on their laurels and claim credit for that.

I'm just puzzled. If you talk for a living, shouldn't you do a better job of it?