[IP] more on Censorship via loss of closed caption funding?
Delivered-To: dfarber+@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:31:02 -0500
From: Richard Fritzson <fritzson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Censorship via loss of closed caption funding?
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Look again. This isn't about a shortage of dollars.
The complaint, by the Chair of the National Council on Disabilities Lex
Frieden, is that
"Without public notice, DoED changed its administration of captioning
grants by convening a panel to determine that the 200 programs were not
appropriate based on additional descriptive categories developed by
Department personnel. NCD has learned from the panelists that they had no
idea that they were being used for the purpose of cutting captioned
programming."
The programs have been declared 'not appropriate'. No one has said that
there isn't enough money. The decision was reached using a new process
instead of the required federal rulemaking processes. Previously the
decisions were based on the preferences of consumers using public Consumer
Advisory Boards. Now the classifications of an unnamed group of individuals
using a new unpublished definition of what is appropriate are being used
instead.
Censorship is a perfectly reasonable word for this activity.
This is what Mr. Doctorow is "on about".
Rich Fritzson
Dave Farber wrote:
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:42:20 -0500
From: Hiawatha Bray <watha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [IP] Censorship via loss of closed caption funding?
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx, ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I don't get it. There's this huge list of shows that won't get funding for
closed captioning. I have no idea what criteria are used to decide the
matter. But there's only so many dollars to go around here, and something's
got to get dropped.
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