"Time" names 15 best hosts

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'154001\' date=\'Jun 1 2007, 12:24 PM\']
While we're at it, here's the article for which Time did the game show hosts list as a "web extra"--a tribute to the show, not Barker, as TV's most populist show:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/...1625199,00.html
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And again, written by someone who knows his way around our genre.  You may or may not agree with his points, but it's clear he knows what he's talking about.

[Robert Hutchinson]

That was an interesting article--even the parts I disagreed with. But am I the only one who found the following an unfortunate bit of writing/editing?

Twenty-One scandalized the nation--and isn't it quaint to think of Americans being scandalized over a game show?--because people wanted to believe in intellectual Charles Van Doren, who was fed answers. Jeopardy! and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire follow that tradition . . .

[WhammyPower]

[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'154028\' date=\'Jun 1 2007, 04:35 PM\'] That was an interesting article--even the parts I disagreed with. But am I the only one who found the following an unfortunate bit of writing/editing?

Twenty-One scandalized the nation--and isn't it quaint to think of Americans being scandalized over a game show?--because people wanted to believe in intellectual Charles Van Doren, who was fed answers. Jeopardy! and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire follow that tradition . . . [/quote]
Yeah, I kinda groaned at that when I first saw it...