Saturday, January 19, 2008
Closed-caption humor
I like to keep the TV picture on with closed-captioning, while I listen to old-time radio on CD. Wasteful, but satisfies a need to be informed in case something really important happens. The closed captioning also provides some interesting evidence of bias. For instance, during one minute of primary coverage last night, the Fox News CC referred to Huckabee as 'UCK BEE' and 'MUCK BEE', which corresponds nicely with the Brand-R establishment's attitude toward Huck. Later, while showing a clip from Huck's stump speech, the captioning went like this:
AN OLD LADY APPROACHED ME AND ASKED IF I WAS AN ORDAINED MINISTER. I SAID CORRECT, IM A BAATHIST. ¶ 9:23 AM
AN OLD LADY APPROACHED ME AND ASKED IF I WAS AN ORDAINED MINISTER. I SAID CORRECT, IM A BAATHIST. ¶ 9:23 AM
