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Alan Heymann (aheymann@merle.acns.nwu.edu) wrote:

: Maybe I don't get as piqued as some people do at incidents that involve
: alleged racism, but this charge seems ridiculous.

: 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.

: a

I have watched countless newscasts, where I could _NOT_ understand 
someone who was interviewed, including blacks, orientals and whites.

I would have been offended, as I am now, if any of them had subtitles.
This was not a case of one person who was hard to understand, for 
whatever reason (bad mic, wind, 911 call) .  This was ALL interviewees
with subtitles.

If you still don't think there is anything wrong with that,
watch the movie -AIRPLANE-, there are two black men who speak jive,
and there are subtitles, explaining what they're saying.

Did you think THAT was seriouss?  I didn't. I thought it was a joke.
So I think channel 2 must also be a 'joke'.


(Unless, maybe you want Channel 2 to decide that the next time a young
black kid from the inter-city is interviewed, they'll provide sub-titles,
'just in case someone from omaha wouldn't understand their slang'.

again, just my $.02