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NBC News has been getting criticized for emphasizing the sexuality of "Jeopardy!" champion Mattea Roach in a Twitter post that calls the Canadian whiz kid a "lesbian tutor."
Roach has been victorious in 17 consecutive games, amassing a grand prize total of $396,182 as of Wednesday, the New York Post reported.
NBC News on Monday tweeted its story on Roach and characterized her in the tweet's text as a "23-year-old lesbian tutor from Toronto."
The 23-year-old lesbian tutor from Toronto has amassed a total of $320,081, the most by a Canadian contestant in \u201cJeopardy!\u201d history.https://nbcnews.to/3vIFskv— NBC News (@NBC News) 1650926285
While the headline of the NBC News story does much the same, calling Roach the "latest LGBTQ 'Jeopardy!' phenom," the piece is actually part of the network's "Out Life and Style" section as noted in a tiny block of text to the upper left of the story's headline. So the story's angle makes more sense on the NBC News website.
However, there's no note in the Twitter post that the story on Roach is for an LBGTQ-focused department for NBC News, so some users of the social media platform were a bit annoyed by the "lesbian tutor" characterization in the tweet — such Chris Taylor, senior correspondent for Reuters, who asked, “Is her sexual orientation really relevant here?”
Others agreed:
As of Thursday afternoon, the NBC News tweet about Roach was still active, as was the headline above the NBC News story about her.
Here's Roach in a Thursday interview with "Good Morning America" on her historic run of wins:
‘Jeopardy!’ champ Mattea Roach talks record-breaking run l GMAyoutu.be