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In an interview with People magazine, out Wednesday, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek credited the prayers of millions of his fans for helping him in his fight against stage-four pancreatic cancer, now in “near remission”. Yet, while ABC’s World News Tonight touted Trebek’s praise, CBS Evening News ignored that part of Trebek’s comments and NBC Nightly News edited it out of the quotes and videos they played.
Before we can examine what was missing, let’s look at what should have been reported.
ABC anchor David Muir recalled how Trebek “vowed to fight it” by playing a soundbite of the gameshow host telling fans back in March: “With the help of your prayers also, I plan to beat the low survival rate statistics for this disease.”
Muir read sizable quotes from the magazine article where Trebek credits prayer.
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