Author Topic: Jeopardy! slammed by Yahoo News (Read 8540 times)

Bryce L. · « **on:** October 02, 2013, 10:14:00 PM »

http://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/what-s-up-with--jeopardy----the-latest-snafu-involves-mispronunciation-of--elaine--from--seinfeld--181534305.html\'>http://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/what-s-up-with--jeopardy----the-latest-snafu-involves-mispronunciation-of--elaine--from--seinfeld--181534305.html

Again with the media ragging on Jeopardy!... SMH.

TLEberle · « **Reply #1 on:** October 02, 2013, 10:19:46 PM »

If we\'re allowing stupid initialisms to infect and pollute our discussion, and how appropriate it is, too:

FFS.

PYLdude · « **Reply #2 on:** October 02, 2013, 11:00:00 PM »

Jeppurdy iz srrz bidness.

40onTheBlue · « **Reply #3 on:** October 02, 2013, 11:09:30 PM »

Yahoo! News is scurrilous, gutter journalism, IMHO. Best taken with a grain (or a shakerful) of salt.

PYLdude · « **Reply #4 on:** October 02, 2013, 11:36:43 PM »

Yahoo! News is scurrilous, gutter journalism, IMHO. Best taken with a grain (or a shakerful) of salt.

Do you take ABC News with that same shakerful?

TLEberle · « **Reply #5 on:** October 03, 2013, 01:13:05 AM »

Do you take ABC News with that same shakerful?

I take all news with a shakerful.

Nice to see that Jeopardy\'s obstinate stance on pronunciation is getting them some negative attention.

PYLdude · « **Reply #6 on:** October 03, 2013, 01:21:30 AM »

Nice to see that Jeopardy\'s obstinate stance on pronunciation is getting them some negative attention.

So the lady claiming racism was justified, then?

TLEberle · « **Reply #7 on:** October 03, 2013, 01:44:40 AM »

I have no idea who claimed racism because I didn\'t read it closely after I saw the gauntlet of tweets that stood in for actual content.

What I know is that a guy said \"who is Elaine?\" with a Hispanic accent that makes it sound faintly like \"Helaine,\" and he was penalized for it. What\'s sad is that this sort of thing doesn\'t happen nearly enough to the point where Jeopardy starts to think \"huh, maybe we can weasel our way out of this icky corner we painted ourselves into\" and let judges judge the response based on intent, let all contestants sign off on that and FFS, start to apply some sanity instead of hardline and labyrinthine rules that still have to be judged anyway.

Or maybe they actually like being thought of as America\'s Favorite Hardass Answer and Question Show. I\'m not Harry Friedman, but I know how I\'d approach this.

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #8 on:** October 03, 2013, 10:33:45 AM »

At a QuizBusters taping Tuesday, we had a game go down to a quick tiebreaker toss-up. I asked for the largest city in Kentucky and the kid buzzed in and answered \"Louisville\", but he said the \'s\'. LEW-iss-vill. I gave it to him without batting an eye, and nobody had a problem, including the other team. The intent was there. He did not mean Lexington. (Earlier in the game, the same kid pronounced the \'s\' at the end of Les Miserables, and again, he did not mean Don Quixote.) We tell our teams that we rely on a lot of that sort of judging, and that overall, we are more lenient than Jeopardy or NAQT, and again, nobody has a problem with that. To me, that\'s the only rational way of running a quiz game.

/We\'re not using NAQT questions this year, so if I\'m lucky, I\'ll never have to see their pedantic footnote about Invisible Man/The Invisible Man ever again.

pacdude · « **Reply #9 on:** October 03, 2013, 03:01:28 PM »

with a ~~Hispanic~~ Filipino accent

Fixed that for you.

/peeks dat por you.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #10 on:** October 03, 2013, 03:04:03 PM »

I\'m still waiting to see where the slam was from Yahoo. It called out the show for being too picky, but that\'s not a slam.

TLEberle · « **Reply #11 on:** October 03, 2013, 03:11:38 PM »

Fixed that for you.

/peeks dat por you.

Golly, I missed it by that much. Humble apologies.

parliboy · « **Reply #12 on:** October 03, 2013, 03:28:17 PM »

I\'m still waiting to see where the slam was from Yahoo. It called out the show for being too picky, but that\'s not a slam.

Headline from Yahoo: \"What\'s the Deal With \'Jeopardy!\'? Show Slammed Over \'Seinfeld\' Snafu\"

Brandon: \"Where\'s the slam on Yahoo?\"

Me: ¿Que?

TLEberle · « **Reply #13 on:** October 03, 2013, 03:31:16 PM »

To me it seems like Brandon is critical of the original poster\'s choice of headline, not of what Yahoo! News chooses to use as their own header.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #14 on:** October 03, 2013, 03:37:54 PM »

Right. I think Yahoo is merely serving as the messenger...they\'re reporting the criticism from others. Just a little semantics issue, but I now see where the initial confusion may come from.