It’s official. Journalism is dead. Jeopardy said so
Posted on 08. Jan, 2010 by jessekg in media
Cus when you look like this, your word is law
Jeopardy, America’s favourite quiz show ® with the quirky Canadian host (who has since this photo put on a shirt and shaved his mustache, but who are we kidding, when you think of Trebek, you think of this) deals with a varying degree of topics, from the low brow reality tv questions to the highest of high brow table of elements or obscure opera ones.
Thursday night’s episode, in between all these random facts, slipped in a giant “F-you” to the journalism industry when it had an entire category devoted to the demise of Amercian newspapers and magazines. That’s not to mention it was in the double jeoardy round, complete with a daily double (ruthless!).
Those wittiest of the witty writers over there aptly title the category “folding newspapers (and magazine),” and must have had a good time running down the list of every paper to go under in the last couple of years. My guess is they are all failed fact checkers and this was their chance to get back at the real journalists after being laid off.
Sadly, nobody missed a single question, the sorry state of newspapers being such a common topic of discussion these days.
The $2,000 question, if you’re wondering, dealt with Conde Nast’s Gourmet magazine. Does anyone know the rest? I can’t believe the list of questions isn’t published on the web somewhere.
Avril
Jan 8th, 2010
I SAW this!! And, yes, I knew that the answer was “Gourmet”– I would have owned that shit.
One of the questions was about the publication that used to “light up” New York (answer: The New York Sun) and another was on the Seattle paper that has managed to save itself by resurrecting itself online (answer: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Sidenote: It was super interesting to note that in one of the “World Leader” categories, everyone could identify pictures of India’s Jawaharlal Nehru and Saudi Arabia’s King Faisal—but not one could figure out the photo of Canada’s Pierre Trudeau. (It was the $2000 answer)
Simon
Jan 8th, 2010
If Jeopardy really wanted to be cool, they’d have a category titled “insults hurled at fictional Alex Trebek on SNL”.
Naturally, the $2000 question would be “Who is Turd Ferguson.”
jessekg
Jan 8th, 2010
Think the New Mexico paper was on there too.
I love how the 2000 question is literally our most popular prime minister ever and no one gets it.
My favourite Trebek insult: what’s the difference between your mother and a mallard? I forget the rest but your mother’s a whore.
Anupa
Jan 9th, 2010
I missed this one. Jeopardy is my favourite show ever. Maybe after I lose my journalism job I can go write for them and embed rap references all over that beautiful blue board.
Jef
Jan 9th, 2010
Oh wow. Is that picture famous? It should be.