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Tuesday, February 17, 2004

Censorship for the Deaf

Neil Gaiman posted:

And if the result of this mysterious panel’s deliberations was that the US Department of Education was to declare over 200 TV programs (almost no cartoons, except for things like Prince of Egypt. No more sports. Precious little drama…) were now inappropriate for closed-caption funding…

Yes, that’s right, sports will no longer receive funding for captioning, nor will several other types of programming.

You can read the complete list of approved/disapproved programming. The disapproved list includes:
Bewitched, Classic Cartoons, College Football, Law & Order, NBA, NBC Sports, NCAA Basketball, NFL, Power Rangers, and Powerpuff Girls.

You can also read a National Association of the Deaf (NAD) press relief on the subject.

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