As a Washington Post columnist reported, three educated people competing on Jeopardy couldn't:
A librarian, a tutor and an English professor, they all looked baffled as they failed to come up with his name.
Media columnist Margaret Sullivan's point was twofold: one, people are not following the Donald John Trump Impeachment story, and two, the media is doing a terrible job by equating a president's trial and a political argument between two democratic candidates.
“This is . . . like if Watergate burglars gave [an] interview to Walter Cronkite in Jan 1974 and detailed the Nixon criminal enterprise,” tweeted the journalist and author Eric Boehlert about Maddow’s interview with Lev Parnas, the Soviet-born businessman who played a key role in the pressure campaign.It was a much, much bigger deal than the Warren-Sanders dust-up.
But to the eyeball attracting media, the "fight" between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders got equal play.
Oh, it's Adam Schiff, by the way, the Democratic California congressman who is impeachment manager in the U.S. House.
I am a faithful Jeopardy watcher, and I usually "catch" 2-4 clues that none of the three contestants got correctly.
ReplyDeleteRecently I even caught one Final Jeopardy question that none of the contestants got correctly--and Alex Trebek announced a wrong response!