Reply #29: yeah, but it's not the network

[THUNDER HANDS]

the network has nothing to do with the captioners. They're all contracted out to captioning companies. And it's not unlikely it was an honest mistake. To do what the closed captioners do is VERY DIFFICULT and VERY STRESSFUL.

If you look at how you type on your home computer, if you're lucky, you can do anywhere between 35 and 75 words a minute - these captioners have to do at LEAST 300 wpm. And they don't get to take a break on breaking news days like this because there are no commercials. So the whole time you're watching the news, there's some lady or some guy sitting at home (and they do this from home) and typing out all this stuff for hours on end, without a break, while their arms and back and hands are getting exhausted.

It's extremely likely this was just a freak error.