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Apr 14, 2012

Wait! Don't Tell Me! - Court Finds That An Employer Raised Appropriate Challenges To Class Claims At The Wrong Time

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As quiz shows go, we believe that NPR has created the most honest one. The pauses designed to give the home player a chance to answer before the reveal are not engineered with lights and buttons and coy invitations from the host. Instead, the home audience is treated to hearing the players hilariously think aloud in answering questions that are practically beside the point. In keeping with the tenor, all the points are just made up as the game goes along, with blithe acknowledgements that the host just divvies them up as he likes because…well…he’s the host. Of course, the format works because there is nothing at stake in the game:  no money, no prizes, just plain old entertainment. However, even in such a low-stakes format, the show still provides the actual answer to the question presented. They get that any refusal to do so would just be maddening.

 

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