On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 3:23 PM Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> wrote:
> The article is attributed to American Media Inc. -- i.e., the National
> Enquirer -- and refers to "the network that has been his home for 30
> years." I would take anything it says with a LARGE grain of salt.
>
> ("The network..." may be a clumsy reference to the ABC owned-and-operated
> stations, which have been carrying "Jeopardy!" since 1990 and are the
> largest station group that carries the show. They obviously have some
> influence over Sony, which produces the show, and CBS, which distributes
> the show, but they certainly don't have direct hiring-and-firing authority
> over the host.)
>
Any of us could have written that article. There was no reporting done -
not even a call to Sony or Trebek's publicist. Somebody just googled and
found some old stories about Trebek and wrote it out.
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