Friday, February 20, 2004

Advocates for deaf charge censorship in closed captioning

The Bush administration has cut off its closed captioning for nearly 200 TV shows, prompting charges of secret censorship to promote an ideological agenda.

"Bewitched" and "Scooby-Doo" are out.

So are "The Simpsons," "Law and Order," some American Movie Channel documentaries, "A&E Investigative Reports" and "X-Men Evolution."

So if this is petitioned, would there be a hearing?

Okay - I know: that was wrong. However, I will say that this type of move is rather disappointing coming from Bush, and for all practical purposes this comes as discriminatory.

Oh well, his presidency; not mine.

The complete list of now word-less shows can be found here.

#posted by Dave 12:19:00 PM