To use a national or international news event to justify a local connection, in order to exploit a bigger story and air it on a local station as if it were news.
"Hey! We have to LOCALIZE this airplane crash. Go find some relatives of any airline crash victims who live nearby, and exploit their grief under the ruse of "humanizing the victims", in order to put yourself into the national story. That will get some eyeballs tonight at six and eleven!!"
12 step recovery jargon referring to someone new who talks about how great life is, now that they'resober. Usually meaning that the person is out of touch with reality.
The new guy seems pretty happy for a dude who has no job, no money and no family. He must be on a pink cloud.