The Guessing Game

Update #2: Justine Damond, the Australian woman shot to death by a police officer in Minneapolis. People loves a Dead Attractive Blonde Woman story.

Update #1: I hadn't been paying too much attention to the whole "Michael Phelps races a shark" story, other than keeping it in mind for the guessing game list. I didn't even know that the show aired last night. Now, from an article at the Washington Post, it turns out he didn't actually race a real shark:

…57 minutes into Discovery’s heavily-promoted Sunday night Shark Week program — in which Olympic powerhouse swimmer Michael Phelps was set to race against a great white shark — viewers heard this quote from ecologist Tristan Gutteridge, one [of] the featured scientists:

“Clearly, we can’t put Michael in one lane and a white shark on the far lane. We’re gonna have to do a simulation.”

Hold on. So Phelps wasn’t going to actually race a shark in a TV event titled “Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White”?! Why was the hour-long special billed as such? 

While common sense probably could have saved any disappointment — along with pre-show interviews where Phelps assured everyone that he wouldn’t really race next to a shark in open water — many viewers were not pleased.

As the article says, not really a surprise if you gave it serious thought, but still. It's a "media literacy" lesson in how heavily-hyped stories almost always aren't exactly what the headlines/promos want you to think they are. Read the article here.

Original post:
What will be on the cover of People this week? My guesses:

OJ Simpson: Granted parole, will be out of jail in October
Chester Bennington: Linkin Park singer commited suicide
John McCain: Diagnosed with brain cancer
Michael Phelps: Raced a shark
Sean Spicer/Anthony Scaramucci/Sarah Huckabee Sanders: A shake-up in the White House press office
John Heard: Dead Celebrity, was in Home Alone and Sopranos
David Parnes: The star of Million Dollar Listing L.A. got married
The Royals: More about William and Kate's trip to Poland and Germany, George's 4th birthday, William and Harry talk about Diana in a new documentary, People and ABC have a two-part special on the 20th anniversary of Diana's death