Opinion: We’re not just mourning Alex Trebek. We’re mourning the truth.
By Drew Goins Drew Goins Editor and producer in the Opinions section Email Bio Follow Editor and producer March 8 at 12:45 PM Answer: Although complicated, totally relative and exhausting to wrestle with elsewhere, this concept is never up for debate under the watch of Alex Trebek on “Jeopardy!”In the wider world, it’s a question that seems slipperier at every turn. Postmodernists declared the truth socially constructed.
Since 1984, Trebek has dispensed truths at a dime a dozen. The show’s format, inverted from the standard trivia setup, puts all the answers right there on the board — 30 truths at a time for contestants to discover. All they have to supply is the question. These standards slide once we leave the “Jeopardy!” set, where canny manipulators get away with plenty worse than a misarticulated second syllable. The best a contestant can do with Trebek in the room, though, is hoodwink the host until a commercial break. On the rare instances that points are awarded improperly, the record is always promptly corrected and the scores adjusted before things can get too out of hand.
As “Jeopardy!” took off, Trebek parlayed his authority into hosting other gigs that attempted to establish an objective reality: the National Geographic Bee, gubernatorial debates, NBC’s “To Tell the Truth.” “Jeopardy!” legend Ken Jennings pointed out on Twitter following Wednesday’s news that Trebek is, in a way, the “last Cronkite.” You can’t help but trust him.
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