Mary Day Winn biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Mary Day Winn

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Mary Day Winn

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Journalist and ornithologist                          
The Plug-In Drug - 1977                          
                          
                          
When she was a 21-year-old Columbia student, she became a contestant on Dotto, a newly popular daytime CBS television quiz show. When a fellow contestant found a notebook with answers belonging to Winn, at about the time a nighttime version of the show looked like an NBC hit, it triggered a series of internal investigations that led to Dotto being canceled on both networks. Ten days later, newspaper stories corroborating deposed Twenty-One champion Herb Stempel's charges of rigging launched the quiz show scandal in earnest.
Winn's book does not acknowledge her role in television game show scandals, even though it is an accepted media studies text praised by academics.