Naked TV News For The Deaf
Robert Paul Reyes
August 17, 2007
"An embarrassed Japanese government has cut the subsidy, but a Tokyo TV company said on Friday it would carry on making a striptease news show with sign language for hearing-impaired viewers.
The government made grants totaling 400,000 yen (1,800 pounds) to help cover production of the weekly five-minute programme on satellite TV, which features a newsreader who removes her clothes between news items that she delivers in sign language."
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It doesn't take a rocket scientist or a sign language expert to figure out that "Naked Sign Language News" was produced and marketed for viewers who can hear as well as they can see.
Every TV set manufactured in the last ten years has an option for closed-caption programming. A news program, ostensibly for the deaf, featuring a news reporter delivering the news in sign language is as superfluous as a warning that the Jerry Springer show might be offensive.
I wonder how many TV anchors can read from a TelePrompTer and sign at the same time? I would guess that not many Barbie and Ken anchor teams can manage that trick.
"The funding dried up when the government, under fire for supporting 'Naked Sign Language News', changed funding guidelines for programming aimed at the disabled to exclude pornography, local media reported."
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That's patently discriminatory, the deaf are entitled to pornography.
The Fox News Channel has the hottest reporter babes in the business; the news hotties who deliver the headlines at the bottom of the hour should deliver the news in the nude. (Signing for the hearing impaired of course.)
"Naked Sign Language News" gets a thumbs up for me; I'm all in favor of more programming for the disabled.
How about a "Naked TV News for the Blind", featuring buxom beauties delivering the news in the nude. There would be an audio channel available for the blind, with a narrator describing the assets of the TV reporters.
The government made grants totaling 400,000 yen (1,800 pounds) to help cover production of the weekly five-minute programme on satellite TV, which features a newsreader who removes her clothes between news items that she delivers in sign language."
Quote from Reuters
It doesn't take a rocket scientist or a sign language expert to figure out that "Naked Sign Language News" was produced and marketed for viewers who can hear as well as they can see.
Every TV set manufactured in the last ten years has an option for closed-caption programming. A news program, ostensibly for the deaf, featuring a news reporter delivering the news in sign language is as superfluous as a warning that the Jerry Springer show might be offensive.
I wonder how many TV anchors can read from a TelePrompTer and sign at the same time? I would guess that not many Barbie and Ken anchor teams can manage that trick.
"The funding dried up when the government, under fire for supporting 'Naked Sign Language News', changed funding guidelines for programming aimed at the disabled to exclude pornography, local media reported."
Quote from Reuters
That's patently discriminatory, the deaf are entitled to pornography.
The Fox News Channel has the hottest reporter babes in the business; the news hotties who deliver the headlines at the bottom of the hour should deliver the news in the nude. (Signing for the hearing impaired of course.)
"Naked Sign Language News" gets a thumbs up for me; I'm all in favor of more programming for the disabled.
How about a "Naked TV News for the Blind", featuring buxom beauties delivering the news in the nude. There would be an audio channel available for the blind, with a narrator describing the assets of the TV reporters.
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