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

[mysteryowl]

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.

[Bread and Circuses]

1. Stupidity

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. Why does it surprise you?

This has been SOP for the media for decades.

[spooky3]

3. I think it's because many in the media know S Guthrie personally. Nt

[SheltieLover]

5. Pls see #4

[spooky3]

7. Thanks!

[SheltieLover]

8. Yw

Seems useless corp media is sending a message...

[mysteryowl]

13. I understand, but it has to be more than that. IMO

[SheltieLover]

4. Could this be why?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221011757#post1

[mysteryowl]

10. Wow! That is so gangster.

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.

[SheltieLover]

12. Maybe trying to drag out the story to drive the point home

[mysteryowl]

16. That this regime is gangster and will hurt you and your family. That point?

[SheltieLover]

17. Could be...

[Greg_In_SF]

24. They didn't just

get the doorbell video.

They just released the doorbell video. Big difference.

[mysteryowl]

27. Oh, see, I am not following the day-to-day on this.

[Greg_In_SF]

30. No worries!

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

[mysteryowl]

36. Good point.

[Takket]

6. because her daughter is famous

[Skittles]

42. I'd never heard of her

but then, I don't watch much TV

[JBTaurus83]

9. I just said the same to my husband

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]

14. Yes! Thank you!

[flvegan]

11. Trying to drown out the Epstein files info/reporting. n/t

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[Greg_In_SF]

15. The only reason they do anything

RATINGS!!!

[mysteryowl]

19. I get that. But, I say they are making the wrong assumption that "everyone" is really interested in this 24/7

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

[Greg_In_SF]

21. They get ratings

reports daily. The watch hours must be there.

[JBTaurus83]

22. Whenever the media

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

[ITAL]

18. Famous relative

Think Lindbergh baby.

[mysteryowl]

20. Response #4

[ITAL]

39. Lindbergh baby scenario makes WAAAY more sense

[mysteryowl]

40. I'd have to go read about it to have an opinion.

I just don't know about everything.

[Rebl2]

23. Because

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.

[mysteryowl]

26. Yeah, Sheltielover is saying something similar, but about the Epstein victims connection.

See comment #4

[misanthrope]

28. Laziness

End of story

[newdeal2]

29. Because it's a sensational story

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]

31. I wonder if race has something to do with it. White people get press.

Native Americans have a horrible record for missing girls.

We never hear about though. Just saying.

[Greg_In_SF]

32. And OJ Simpson

24/7 for months!

[mysteryowl]

33. It reminds me of AI, we are being forced to consume it.

[Ping Tung]

34. William Randolph Hearst "If it bleeds it leads"

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

[kimbutgar]

35. Because they don't want to report the ICE thugs terrorizing our citizens and the Epstein pedo potus connection.

[NewHendoLib]

37. There is a solution. Turn it off. Don't watch. Life is much more enjoyable. That's our last 15 years.

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

[mysteryowl]

38. But then I wouldn't be able to have an opinion about it.

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.

[choie]

41. Because she's the mother

Of a white tv journalist (or talking head, whichever you prefer)

[Jack Valentino]

43. To distract us from how their fascist King is wrecking our country !!!!

[ms liberty]

44. Because it's happening to one of them.

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]

45. They don't dare to report about our entire country being kidnapped by a psychopathic terrorist group called the GOP

so they go to the next best thing.

[Alice Kramden]

46. They do it to instill fear

A population poisoned by fear is easily manipulated

[milestogo]

47. Because people are interested in this story.

I don't think its over-reported.