Government cuts funding for closed-captioning for the deaf
Posted 2/25/04
NEW YORK – The U.S. Education Department has cut the money for captioning nearly 200 TV programs, citing a 1997 mandate from Congress only to pay for captioning of "educational, news and informational" programming.
But advocates for the deaf …
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