Help us shame The New York Times into fixing its bogus Price Is Right journalism - A.V. Club (blog)
Over the weekend, The New York Times published the latest edition of its fun consumer complaint resolution column, The Haggler , and this installment deals with an 81-year-old Price Is Right contestant who had trouble claiming her prizes .... She left additional messages on the machines of other “Price Is Right” employees. Because if “The Price Is Right” were in the habit of keeping the cars, trips and merchandise, we’d know it. The whole goal of the show, which made its debut in 1972, is giving things away. Finding out that “The Price Is Right” keeps prizes would be like learning that the Jolly Green Giant hoards peas. The Times writer, David Segal, sets up a conference call between himself, McKay, and Price executive producer Mike Richards to resolve the dispute, which was apparently the result of a bureaucratic oversight. The whole saga is worth reading for the details it offers about Price ’s purportedly precarious prize process—for instance, contestants apparently receive a “tax letter” that totals up bill they have to pay before they can claim any of their... Allison McKay did not win her prizes in the Showcase Showdown (and Mike Richards would know this, so he was certainly misquoted). Source: www.avclub.com
