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PCIntern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 02:50 PM
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Typical CNN:
So they're showing a video of a crocodile under some water, and just so you don't think that it was their low-res camera, there's a banner which reads:

AMATUER VIDEO BY (WHOMEVER)

...and professional spelling by whom?

"Amatuer" hour here on CNN.

:rofl:
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 02:51 PM
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1. I never thought that I could hold MSNBC in higher esteem but at least
they have Keith Obermann. :shrug:

CNN has Nancy Grace, Glenn Beck and Larry King. :eyes:
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 02:55 PM
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2. I see spelling errors all the time in the CNN banners.
They seriously need someone to proofread those things before they go on air.
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PCIntern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 03:00 PM
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3. It shows pure carelessness and disrespect for the viewers...
now I can understand that many people deserve such disdain, but ther are those of us who are sensitive to these issues b/c...well, to quote your President, "It's drug on" way too long.

Their vee-jays are dopes, their writers are dopes, their producers are dopes.

Now allow me to say that I do recall a much downloaded video "Amatuer (sic) porn star" That was how many people found it on the Internet...the spelling error. I didn't of course...I just heard about it. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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Mabus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 03:41 PM
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4. If you think that's bad, try reading the closed captions
Talk about disrepecting viewers. There are times when the captions convey an opposite meaning of what was actually being said.
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PCIntern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 05:23 PM
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6. Actually,
I treat a gal who does the closed-captions locally here in Philly. She says that it is almost impossible not to make mistakes due to the nature of the delivery of the networks as opposed to how it works in a courtroom. She's very good at what she does according to others and that there's no time to edit the captions the way they edit the transcripts from Depositions and court. I'm not saying that the inversion of meaning doesn't happen, but she told me many years ago that live captioning for sports and breaking news is really tough, and that you can easily miss key words, especially negations b/c they're often stated in a slightly softer voice by speakers.

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Mabus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 09:59 PM
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9. I can believe that
I know I couldn't do it. But I wasn't specifically thinking about live television. To make a long story short, I'm on some meds which are giving insomnia. I end up watching tv when I can't sleep. If I turn the sound up too loud it wakes up my husband. This is especially true when I'm watching commerical television and one of those commericals comes at blasting. Another thing that happens is two characters are whispering and then step out onto a busy street with people yelling or car horns blaring. My solution has been to keep the sound down and turn on the captions.

Last night after the premiere of the second season of "Big Love" I went back and watched the very first episode of it. One example from it: The closed caption had Rhonda (on of the younger characters) say something like "I'm a maid of Roman" instead what she actually said which was "I'm married to Roman." In context of the show (polygamist marriages) and not knowing anything about how Mormons make the arrangements for the marriages (or at least how they portray this sect's practices) I would assume that if she was saying she was a maid of Roman's that it would mean that she is just engaged to him. That's what I was talking about.

But I think the mistranscriptions that bother me the most are the ones dealing with prescription medicines. Sometimes, when they are listing all the bad side effects to the hearing people, the captions might start off following the same script then they switch to just showing the product's name and a website. I mean, shouldn't drug companies have to list in the captions the same type of warnings that are listed outloud?

In both these two instances the person inputting the captions aren't under the same stress as someone who is doing it live.
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 04:05 PM
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5. they serve up 24 hours of that
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brettdale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 05:25 PM
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7. If the croc attacked someone
They probably would of put (D) beside it, hang on, that's faux.
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 05:25 PM
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8. funny and pathetic at the same time
laugh/cry..
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