Closed Captioning
While at the gym this morning (yes, I went to the gym) and watching the news on mute (yes, I watched the news) I realized that deaf people growing up with closed captioning haven't a hope of spelling or grammatical success and god help them if they're dyslexic. At one point, you could actually see the person typing the captioning hit the backspace a few times and retype a local town's name. On top of that, the captioning is on a slight delay. So the words almost never match the picture. At one point, the news went to commercial and the caption left was 'The state issued a warning that residents of Worcester should...'. Should what? Should WHAT? They never finished. If I was deaf, dyslexic and watching the news in Worcester I'd have a headache about then.
While at the gym this morning (yes, I went to the gym) and watching the news on mute (yes, I watched the news) I realized that deaf people growing up with closed captioning haven't a hope of spelling or grammatical success and god help them if they're dyslexic. At one point, you could actually see the person typing the captioning hit the backspace a few times and retype a local town's name. On top of that, the captioning is on a slight delay. So the words almost never match the picture. At one point, the news went to commercial and the caption left was 'The state issued a warning that residents of Worcester should...'. Should what? Should WHAT? They never finished. If I was deaf, dyslexic and watching the news in Worcester I'd have a headache about then.

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At 5:10 PM,
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