On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 10:01 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>

The state of journalism in 2019.


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