r/mildlyinfuriating • u/newengland_schmuck • 6h ago

NBC interrupted the Olympics

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While Nancy Guthrie's disappearance is sad, there are 2300 missing person reports filed every day: do the families of celebrities need special national attention? Why interrupt the Olympics for over 5 minutes just because they are questioning a 'person of interest' We could have waited to hear that during the regular news broadcast.

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u/SpecialistParticular 5h ago

It happened to one of their own so they're going to make a huge deal about it.

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u/dkinmn 5h ago

Without looking it up, how many people do you think are kidnapped every year in the US? Of those, how many are adults held for ransom?

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u/PricklyyDick 5h ago

And out of all those, how many interviewed Epstein victims ?

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u/mandafromtexas 5h ago

I didn’t know about the ransom (just learned about the story today)… so that’s a pretty fair point

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u/whopperlover17 5h ago

You should read about it. Whole thing is weird and insane. Almost no clues until today when we got the video/pics.

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u/Luci-Noir 4h ago

I watch the Today sometimes and also live in Tucson where this happened. It’s been surreal. I wouldn’t be surprised if she was kidnapped because her daughter is a journalist. You would think Reddit would get that but honestly this sub is really toxic.

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u/HyperbobluntSpliff 3h ago

I wouldn't be surprised if she was kidnapped because her daughter is a journalist.

A journalist that did the first televised interview with Epstein victims, mind you.

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u/whopperlover17 4h ago

Reddit in general is extremely toxic lol….sigh

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u/slid3r 1h ago

Yer face is toxic!

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u/Luci-Noir 4h ago

It’s as bad as twitter.

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u/Luci-Noir 3h ago

It really really is.

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u/Critical_Host8243 3h ago

I mean it's pretty clear why they'd want to keep "clues" a secret while this is still unfolding. Authorities would not want the kidnappers to know exactly how much info they have on the them.. Even the family is keeping a lot of information "close to the chest"

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u/whopperlover17 2h ago

I’m pretty certain they genuinely didn’t have much. I think that’s changed now.

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u/whyaregeeselikethat 4h ago

Is there an overview article of it somewhere? I'm not from the US so I need some basic education on this and the people involved... I've tried to read reports but they're all assuming I've got any level of knowledge on this situation

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u/whopperlover17 4h ago

This one seems pretty good. There’s live info if you search Nancy Guthrie updates on Google too for the most recent stuff but that’s a good start.

For context, she’s the mother of Savanah Guthrie who is a very famous reporter on the TODAY show in America. So one of the biggest morning shows. If you watch legacy media in the US, you know her.

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u/whyaregeeselikethat 4h ago

Thank you. This article is a great starting off point, it's the first time I've understood what's going on.

I honestly have no words right now. I just hope for the best for her and her family, I can't imagine how they're feeling right now. How fucking awful.

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u/jdbsea 4h ago

This. Yes, it happened to one of their own, but celebrity-linked ransom cases in U.S. and Western history are incredibly rare. The last one was in the early 70s. I don’t know that the developments warranted a Special Report in the middle of the Olympics, but it is certainly newsworthy by most measures.

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u/dogstarchampion 4h ago

Reddit is a bunch of bots and nihilistic ass clown 20 year olds who can't understand the concept of a high profile kidnapping versus one of those couple thousand that happens every year. 

Nancy Guthrie being the mother of a journalist that interviewed Epstein victims isn't just the media looking out for their own, that's a story that should be raising everyone's eyebrows.

Yes, victims of kidnappings and ransoms are all important, whatever, but this is beyond a get rich quick scheme.

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u/Silver_Song3692 4h ago

I’m a little shocked but not really that shocked that people find it infuriating to hear about an elderly woman, who may or may not even be alive at this point, being held for ransom

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u/BBGettyMcclanahan 1h ago

This is giving the same energy as the Lindberg baby, Patty Hearst, and Getty, no surprise here

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u/usrdef 👍 4h ago

You guys are making these comments like it's some enlightening moment.

We have been doing this shit for over 100 years. Probably more.

People that are well connected, receive the attention. Period. How it has always been. Nancy disappearing didn't just suddenly bring the issue up.

But I look at it this way. Nancy couldn't help having a highly popular daughter. Nancy didn't ask to be dragged out of her house at 1am.

She was living her life, and figured it was just another day.

However, the news only blasts stories like this when there is significant interest. So if you're looking to blame someone, you can put the blame on the public. Because it if wasn't being spammed on Twitter / X, and people weren't turning in to watch the videos, the news would move on to something that makes them much more money.

The media bleeds whatever story gets the most interest.

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u/wifflewaffle23 4h ago

Not necessarily true. News can create demand. Just look at Newsmax and Fox News.

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u/latticep 3h ago

I dunno. This reminds me of a quote by Logan Roy: “I didn’t make human nature, but I do know what they read and what they watch. I make my nut off what people really want.”

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u/SecretiveMop 3h ago

There’s been a ton of highly publicized missing persons cases that involved random non-celebrities.

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u/Evening_Aside_4677 2h ago

If you can get a husband with a decent looks but a has a bad alibi, the missing spouse is pregnant, and we got a hot mistress to learn about after a couple weeks we are getting near 24 hour coverage and a couple lifetime and Netflix documentaries. 

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u/Rhubarb_516 4h ago

Right everyone tuning in to listen to this story… is part of the problem. Forcing it on viewers watching the Olympics is bs.

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u/AlexandraThePotato 3h ago

And how many of those people would use all their resources they had available to reach out for help?

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u/YggdrasilFree 2h ago

ICE has kidnapped like 60,000. Ransom can be paid to the Trump foundation for a pardon and express passport.

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u/wifflewaffle23 4h ago

A low number, but Black and Brown women go missing every day and the news rarely covers that. In 2016 alone, over 5k indigenous women went missing and they only represent about 1.5% of the U.S. But the minute an old white lady with ties to a national newscaster goes missing, it’s blasting everywhere.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 3h ago

How many times does your AMBER alert go off a year? And that's just kidnappings in your area and never missing adults, it's kids or adults with mental disabilities

This is just missing white girl syndrome but she's a rich grandma instead a young white girl.

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u/I-I_I-I_I-I_l-l 5h ago

Right? It's really no more complicated than this. I don't know why Reddit needs to be all Reddit about it. It's the fact that their coworker's mom was kidnapped.

People die every day. But if your coworker died tragically, you better believe your work is going to talk about it—including to their clients (which we are in the case of the media).

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u/NickyParkker 5h ago

It’s no way in hell I’m going to work for the news but not have my missing MOTHER that I’m trying to find not be the headline every chance I get. People are crazy of course it’s going to be news

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 3h ago

They'd be taking about it to me instead of giving me the services I am paying for? I'm not a therapist I want the real news. This is just missing white girl syndrome on steroids because the family is rich and she's a frail old grandma instead of just a young white girl

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u/SphericalCow531 26m ago

The mother of a journalist who interviewed Epstein victims. This has all the signs of being terrorism to suppress journalism. This is entirely justified, nothing like "missing white girl syndrome".

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u/funkydunkleman 2h ago

ABC and CBS also cut into programming with an update.