Comments on: Jeopardy Emancipation spelling error costs boy $3,000, internet’s angry

By: Kestal

Kestal — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:59:00 +0000

Jeopardy, its producers, Trebek, and some of its fans (see comments immediately below) have always been smug and elitist. A television game show isn’t about life’s lessons and that if we don’t penalize a child he or she will surely “crash down the road”. You people are full of it.

By: Brett Reilly

Brett Reilly — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 03:42:00 +0000

In reply to Hank. Hi Hank, I completely agree with your comment. What's wrong is wrong. How can we fluff it up just because the kids upset?

By: Hank

Hank — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 23:39:00 +0000

As hard as it is to swallow, incorrect is incorrect ! Do we want to start at 12 years old sugar coating life when ever he doesn’t make it, is near, almost there or close to it; I don’t think so as he will surely crash down the road. There has been a lot of other people in the history of the show who came close or almost had it right and each had to get over the lost and yes even lost far more money.
What message are we sending to our young people; parents will raise hell and make the show change the rules just for Thomas Hurley. This was an important lesson.

By: John P

John P — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 23:11:00 +0000

For all the twitter And Facebook guru’s the rules of the road are misspelling words of an answer is a wrong answer. In school a misspelled word is a wrong answer, same thing happens everywhere spelling is as important as math answer or history, in life.