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mysteryowl

(8,870 posts)
Tue Feb 10, 2026, 08:20 PM 11 hrs ago

Why is the media over-reporting about Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping?

In 2025 open missing persons cases in the United States = 25,544.


How much press do all these people get?

I am not insensitive to Nancy's situation, it is just out of balance.


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Why is the media over-reporting about Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping? (Original Post) mysteryowl 11 hrs ago OP
Stupidity Bread and Circuses 11 hrs ago #1
Why does it surprise you? Fiendish Thingy 11 hrs ago #2
I think it's because many in the media know S Guthrie personally. Nt spooky3 11 hrs ago #3
Pls see #4 SheltieLover 11 hrs ago #5
Thanks! spooky3 11 hrs ago #7
Yw SheltieLover 11 hrs ago #8
I understand, but it has to be more than that. IMO mysteryowl 11 hrs ago #13
Could this be why? SheltieLover 11 hrs ago #4
Wow! That is so gangster. mysteryowl 11 hrs ago #10
Maybe trying to drag out the story to drive the point home SheltieLover 11 hrs ago #12
That this regime is gangster and will hurt you and your family. That point? mysteryowl 11 hrs ago #16
Could be... SheltieLover 11 hrs ago #17
They didn't just Greg_In_SF 11 hrs ago #24
Oh, see, I am not following the day-to-day on this. mysteryowl 11 hrs ago #27
No worries! Greg_In_SF 11 hrs ago #30
Good point. mysteryowl 10 hrs ago #36
This message was self-deleted by its author Rebl2 11 hrs ago #25
because her daughter is famous Takket 11 hrs ago #6
I'd never heard of her Skittles 10 hrs ago #42
I just said the same to my husband JBTaurus83 11 hrs ago #9
Yes! Thank you! mysteryowl 11 hrs ago #14
Trying to drown out the Epstein files info/reporting. n/t flvegan 11 hrs ago #11
The only reason they do anything Greg_In_SF 11 hrs ago #15
I get that. But, I say they are making the wrong assumption that "everyone" is really interested in this 24/7 mysteryowl 11 hrs ago #19
They get ratings Greg_In_SF 11 hrs ago #21
Whenever the media JBTaurus83 11 hrs ago #22
Famous relative ITAL 11 hrs ago #18
Response #4 mysteryowl 11 hrs ago #20
Lindbergh baby scenario makes WAAAY more sense ITAL 10 hrs ago #39
I'd have to go read about it to have an opinion. mysteryowl 10 hrs ago #40
Because Rebl2 11 hrs ago #23
Yeah, Sheltielover is saying something similar, but about the Epstein victims connection. mysteryowl 11 hrs ago #26
Laziness misanthrope 11 hrs ago #28
Because it's a sensational story newdeal2 11 hrs ago #29
I wonder if race has something to do with it. White people get press. mysteryowl 11 hrs ago #31
And OJ Simpson Greg_In_SF 11 hrs ago #32
It reminds me of AI, we are being forced to consume it. mysteryowl 10 hrs ago #33
William Randolph Hearst "If it bleeds it leads" Ping Tung 10 hrs ago #34
Because they don't want to report the ICE thugs terrorizing our citizens and the Epstein pedo potus connection. kimbutgar 10 hrs ago #35
There is a solution. Turn it off. Don't watch. Life is much more enjoyable. That's our last 15 years. NewHendoLib 10 hrs ago #37
But then I wouldn't be able to have an opinion about it. mysteryowl 10 hrs ago #38
Because she's the mother choie 10 hrs ago #41
To distract us from how their fascist King is wrecking our country !!!! Jack Valentino 9 hrs ago #43
Because it's happening to one of them. ms liberty 9 hrs ago #44
They don't dare to report about our entire country being kidnapped by a psychopathic terrorist group called the GOP yaesu 9 hrs ago #45
They do it to instill fear Alice Kramden 9 hrs ago #46
Because people are interested in this story. milestogo 9 hrs ago #47

mysteryowl

(8,870 posts)
10. Wow! That is so gangster.
Tue Feb 10, 2026, 08:34 PM
11 hrs ago

So, if Nancy was abducted as punishment to her daughter for reporting about the Epstein victims. That could be possible with this regime.

I still don't understand the over-reporting about her kidnapping.
Although, they JUST finally found the door camera video. Just!
Oh way to go FBI.

Greg_In_SF

(1,011 posts)
30. No worries!
Tue Feb 10, 2026, 08:58 PM
11 hrs ago

Just wanted to point out that they would have watched that video in a lab hundreds or thousands of times before releasing it to the public

Response to SheltieLover (Reply #4)

JBTaurus83

(1,013 posts)
9. I just said the same to my husband
Tue Feb 10, 2026, 08:33 PM
11 hrs ago

I had to turn the news off. My God, at least cover other people’s missing family members if that’s the type of story you want to run 24/7.

mysteryowl

(8,870 posts)
19. I get that. But, I say they are making the wrong assumption that "everyone" is really interested in this 24/7
Tue Feb 10, 2026, 08:43 PM
11 hrs ago

Many of us, turn it off. No rating then M$M.

JBTaurus83

(1,013 posts)
22. Whenever the media
Tue Feb 10, 2026, 08:45 PM
11 hrs ago

Latches on to one of these lazy stories and puts it on a loop, it gives me an excuse to catch up on documentaries.

Rebl2

(17,541 posts)
23. Because
Tue Feb 10, 2026, 08:46 PM
11 hrs ago

it’s a well known journalist elderly mother, key word is journalist/ news anchor. It’s a warning to other journalists maybe? Watch what you talk about? That is the only thing I can think of.

newdeal2

(5,065 posts)
29. Because it's a sensational story
Tue Feb 10, 2026, 08:56 PM
11 hrs ago

We saw the same thing for other cases like JonBenét Ramsey and Laci Peterson.

I’m quite sure the newspapers and radio did the same thing back in the day for other notable crimes.

mysteryowl

(8,870 posts)
31. I wonder if race has something to do with it. White people get press.
Tue Feb 10, 2026, 09:00 PM
11 hrs ago

Native Americans have a horrible record for missing girls.

We never hear about though. Just saying.

Ping Tung

(4,243 posts)
34. William Randolph Hearst "If it bleeds it leads"
Tue Feb 10, 2026, 09:10 PM
10 hrs ago

The media is seldom about news. It is almost always about selling stuff. More readers, more ads, more profit.

No one in this world, so far as I know and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. H.L.Mencken

NewHendoLib

(61,703 posts)
37. There is a solution. Turn it off. Don't watch. Life is much more enjoyable. That's our last 15 years.
Tue Feb 10, 2026, 09:31 PM
10 hrs ago

All the eyeballs tuning in rewards them - and it is just about ad revenue, anyway

mysteryowl

(8,870 posts)
38. But then I wouldn't be able to have an opinion about it.
Tue Feb 10, 2026, 09:46 PM
10 hrs ago



I don't do it often and just to catch some stories I am following.
Today I turned on the evening news and couldn't get away from the Nancy story, no matter what channel I switched to. They just kept going on and on.

I turned off the TV.

ms liberty

(11,080 posts)
44. Because it's happening to one of them.
Tue Feb 10, 2026, 10:08 PM
9 hrs ago

Why do you think they're so reverential about 911? Because it happened in NYC, the home base of corporate news, in the middle of the morning show time slot.

yaesu

(9,133 posts)
45. They don't dare to report about our entire country being kidnapped by a psychopathic terrorist group called the GOP
Tue Feb 10, 2026, 10:24 PM
9 hrs ago

so they go to the next best thing.

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