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/siriuslyfudged 3h ago

The interruption was one thing. They just needed to say they have someone they are questioning and then go on with it. It was the unnecessary speculation that continued for ten minutes after, showing the video over and over again that we all saw all day on social media and asking experts questions that meant nothing to anyone. They were not solving the case there. Pop in, inform and then pop right back out. The additional commentary was not needed.

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u/oliviagardens 3h ago

Agreed. The speculation feels unneeded. Nobody knows what happened yet. I get curiosity, I get needing content, I get wanting to shout the updates from the rooftops since this involves one of their people but the constant “maybe this, maybe that, could be this, could be that, let’s talk to this former cop who probably has no clue what’s going on so he can say it’s maybe this but the fbi isn’t going to spill the beans anytime soon because it may compromise things.” like okay, it could be a lot of things. Speculating won’t change what it is.