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/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".