A question about CNN.

[terrya]

So, I'm watching the debate right now.

And CNN is doing something that annoys me to no end (and I'm probably the only one who is irratated by this)

When someone says something on CNN, there's a crawl at the bottom of the screen...showing the VERY same thing that person said.

I thought perhaps this might be an augmentation of closed captioning...but then I realized that CNN is the only news channel that does this....CNBC and MSNBC doesn't do this practice.

Is the fact that CNN displays the same thing a person says the dumbing down of their news content? Does CNN think their audience is so stupid we didn't understand what the person on the air just said?

This practice of CNN's sounds trivial, but it's very strange, IMO.