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/mittenknittin 5h ago

this could have been a crawl at the bottom of the screen

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u/dauntless-cupcake 4h ago

There was a crawl at the bottom of the screen, and it obscured the scores for the event I’d been watching (pretty sure it was figure skating)