Government decides what TV shows should not be captioned for the deaf


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By semillama on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 06:38 pm:


By Nate on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 11:26 pm:

    eh. i'm not so sure that the right to watch sit-coms is constitutionally protected. why is the government involved in making TV accessible to the hearing impaired in the first place? and if public funds should go to making tv shows accessible to the hearing impaired, should it be all or nothing? if we can't afford to cc 'i dream of jeannie' then we shouldn't cc anything?

    and this is department of education money! with education as under funded as it is, should we really be paying to closed caption 'scooby doo'? especially when the cc'ing charter of the DE is for television that is "educational, news or informational".

    and it is hardly a right wing ploy. i mean, they're still closed captioning charlie rose.


By Rowlfe on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 11:30 pm:

    cartoons = art class education? i guess?


    if the government is involved, they should probably caption all of it. I think the stations should be the ones responsible for this sort of thing. In fact, I thought they were..


By kazu on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 12:15 am:

    It's all culture, even if most of it is crap. And I don't think this is necessarily about the government telling a certain group of people what they can and what they cannot watch; it's not so much the wholesale elimination of certain programs that bothers me. I am just suspicious of what ANY administration decides is "educational, news, or informational." If these funds are in the form of grants (as I thought it said), do people have to apply for specific programs? In that case, would a documentary special on teenagers and birth control or gay and lesbian families be denied funding while others are not? It probably doesn't work like that now, but could this lead to that?

    Though I suppose it should be all or nothing but then again, I'm not entirely opposed to establishing fair parameters especially if we are talking about scarce funds in the first place, but those guidelines should be made public as should the names of the people making these decisions...I mean, it's not national security.


    Well, not yet.


By kazu on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 02:38 am:


By kazu on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 02:47 am:

    "it's not so much the wholesale elimination of certain programs that bothers me"


    I don't know why I said this. That does bother me, but I meant something else and now I can't remember what.


    That is all. Can I go to bed now?


By Lapis on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 02:02 pm:

    They should record everything in other languages so we must have subtitles.


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