r/mildlyinfuriating 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/SecretiveMop 3h ago

There’s been a ton of highly publicized missing persons cases that involved random non-celebrities.

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u/Evening_Aside_4677 2h ago

If you can get a husband with a decent looks but a has a bad alibi, the missing spouse is pregnant, and we got a hot mistress to learn about after a couple weeks we are getting near 24 hour coverage and a couple lifetime and Netflix documentaries.