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Alan Heymann  writes:

>...
>When a newscast's producer deems that something is hard for the viewer to
>understand yet is important enough to leave in the show (i.e. something
>recorded with a bad mic, 911 or airplane black box recordings, etc.), he or
>she includes subtitles to help.  Don't forget, if you miss something once in a
>newscast there's no going back to the previous line and rereading like in a
>newspaper.


Hey!  I'm offended!

I had to call 911 once, and I see this sort of prejudice taking
place on the news all the time.  Someone calls 911, the call
is aired on TV, and the producers of the newscast put in subtitles
so the viewers can "understand" the call.  Do they think that
just because people calling 911 are upset and may not be speaking/thinking 
clearly that that's a valid reason to make a call understandable to 
the viewing public?  Geeeez!

:-) <-- for the *reeeal* humor- and sarcasm-impaired

I agree with Alan:  we're becoming 'way too thin-skinned.  


jtl
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