Nancy Guthrie (84) is the mother of Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, who’s pretty much a nobody when you consider that there’s tens of thousands of other minor TV celebrities whose names hardly anyone takes note of or remembers.
So WHY IS IT that the news media’s been going insane for over a week now, talking about almost nothing except that this old woman was apparently kidnapped? Outside of her own family, who even gives a shit? She’s someone’s mother. She has no personal special credentials, all she ever did in life that anyone thinks is at all special is to give birth to a daughter who managed to get a good job on a television show. Yet suddenly she’s far more important than anything else going on in the world, and there’s A LOT going on in the world that matters more than one missing old lady. Sorry but that’s reality.
She matters no more to the world than any old person with dementia wandering off, or any one of the thousands of old people who die every day or any of the thousands of babies born every day.
Can we please have some sanity in what’s called “news”?