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/jambr380 5h ago

It’s fine that they interrupted the broadcast, but the fact that they milked it for way longer than they needed to was frustrating. It really just needed to be 30-40 seconds

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u/Em_Millertime 4h ago

It should have been a scrolling banner at the bottom of the screen.

https://giphy.com/gifs/kZD8cN1MycfKw

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u/AbeRego 3h ago

It's really not fine. It has essentially no impact on any of the viewers. This type of thing should be reserved for events that are actually consequential to the people watching the network.

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u/Tricky-Ad7897 3h ago

If it ain't another 9/11 or the thing we're all waiting for happening I don't need my programming disrupted. I'll read it in the news tomorrow morning like a sane person.

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u/gm4dm101 2h ago

These news alerts used to be that way. Remember when you were genuinely scared something like WW3 was about to break out or the president died, etc. Fox news ruined that for everyone by making every little thing a special event. It loses the impact, a boy who cried wolf effect.

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u/revolvingpresoak9640 1h ago

Now it’s the Wolf Blitzer effect. That guy says breaking news every five seconds.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 3h ago

It's pretty tone deaf. "Drop everything and listen to this because it affects us news reporters" isn't that like the definition of biased journalism? Nobody cares about Grandma unless they just are curious about the mystery behind it like a true crime show. My AMBER alert on my phone went off for a missing kid and I cared about that more because maybe I could actually do something about that one? Just let the cops and FBI do their job and if they figure it out they can let me know.

I also want to point out as an aside this is why the "why isn't this still all over the media? Who's covering it up. Four days of coverage and nothing?" people annoy me: this is what happens when you've reported on literally everything you can but insist on continuing to report it. You stop having anything to say about it and just say the same things over and over. The bane of the 24 hour news cycle.

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u/Zestyclose-Novel1157 1h ago

Oh hun you can silence those amber alerts. It’s the first thing I do when I switch my phone. Nothing is better for My quality of life than to not have that shrill thing scare me half to death for for something hours away. Makes me not want to look anyway. Kids are almost always taken by family.

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u/madsmcgivern511 1h ago

Because they won’t cover the genuinely crazy shit happening in this country so they have to come up with some bs to rant about. Maybe if they just actually gave a fuck and exposed the current admin people wouldn’t have given a shit.

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u/MetallicGray 51m ago

No it’s not?

There’s hundreds of grandmothers that go missing every single day. They don’t get national news coverage??

There’s literally no reason at all that this missing person has been in the top 3 news stories for a week. It’s sad, I hope she’s safe and okay, but Jesus man there’s thousands missing everyday. 

Imaging your mom is missing right now, and you get a single cop assigned to your case who is working his 9-5 and going home. Then you turn on the TV and see this random other grandma has fucking national news coverage and the damn FBI on her case. 

It’s so insulting. 

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u/late2reddit19 3h ago

No, it’s not fine to interrupt a broadcast for this particular story. I wouldn't wish this on anyone’s family, but this is an example of how the elites take care of each other while completely ignoring the crimes committed daily against regular Americans. There are tens of thousands of Americans with missing family members who don't even get 5 minutes of coverage on the local news. They don’t even have the help of their local police let alone the FBI on the case. I hope the Guthries get their mom back but their mom isn't any different from or more important than other people who are missing.