LVRJ, Media Run False Story About Jeopardy Kid

The media, including the LVRJ have been suckered into believing that a kid who played on Jeopardy was ripped off when misspelled a word, causing him to lose in Double Jeopardy.
From the LVRJ (and other suckers): A Connecticut eighth-grader who misspelled the correct answer to a “Jeopardy!” question and lost money for it says he was cheated.
Thomas Hurley III correctly answered the Final Jeopardy! question about the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln. But his answer, “what is the emanciptation proclamation?” spelled with an extra “t,” was ruled out by host Alex Trebek and cost Thomas the $3,000 he bet on his $9,600 in winnings.
“I was pretty upset that I was cheated out of the Final Jeopardy! question,” the 12-year-old told The New-Times of Danbury. “It was just a spelling error.”
Hurley’s parents were on their son’s side and upset for a number of reasons.
“The thing that bothered me the most was the way Alex Trebek and the producers treated my son. They were kind of smug,” his father Thomas Hurley II told CNN on Sunday night. “It’s a kid’s tournament! Everyone knew what he meant.”
Right or wrong, Hurley still would not have won.
He was up against Skyler Hornback, who set the all-time record for kids with $66,600. Hornback’s winnings were also the third-largest one-day total in the game’s history.
Many Jeopardy! viewers took to the Internet to shame the show’s producers and voice their plans to boycott future episodes.
“Jeopardy ripped him off! Will not watch it again,” said Freddie Adair on the show’s Facebook page.    http://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/conn-boy-i-was-cheated-over-jeopardy-spelling
Even if the judges allowed the answers, the kid still would have lost! 
The kid who won, won $66,600 and the kid who lost would have only won $12,600, still losing the game.
Apparently, the crybaby kid still won $2000 in 2nd and 3rd place prizes.
So, what lesson did this kid learn?
Probably not a damn thing, but we learned the kid is a crybaby.