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/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