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Started by Don Saklad
Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:04
Closed captioned city council meetings. Broadcasts.
Author: Don Saklad
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:04
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:04
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If you would be interested in closed captioned broadcasts of Boston City Council or Cambridge City Council meetings give the closed captioned people a call http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/mag/services/captioning/faq/sugg-styles-conv-faq.html It is a project to make local democracy more accessible. http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil http://bmrb.org http://www.cambridgema.gov/ccouncil.cfm http://rwinters.com
Re: Closed captioned city council meetings. Broadcasts.
Author: ken kerrison
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 02:07
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 02:07
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If you have in mind live captioning I can see problems. Each councillor would have a tv on his lectern so he could check the translation and would object if he felt it misrepresented him. Also live captioning is very expensive. If you have in mind captioning recordings of proceedings ex post then it is difficult to see the point. Presumably transcripts are available and, while these may lose the immediacy and colour of video, they are a very efficient way of finding out what happened (usually not very much). An obvious exception is any sort of major or historical event. But to caption all the garbage which comes out of meetings would be a shocking waste of effort. I depend heavily on captioning but would prefer the scarce resources of captioners and their funding applied to information, education and entertainment. Very few meetings fall intro any of these categories.
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