Basically it was done to drive people to the podcast.

On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 10:25 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 10:01 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 3:23 PM Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
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>>> 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.)
>>>
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>> 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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> The state of journalism in 2019.
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