I have not heard this anywhere. Can you tell me where you heard this and I'll look into it.
Keep emailing them. Bombard them. Ping everyone!
Here's what I sent:
I'm hoping you will bring attention to this to the higher ups of the news channel. Okay, I have been emailing Fox News for quite a while now asking and begging them to start close captioning their news coverage non-stop 24/7. I never got any kind of answer nor any action taken.
BUT....since the liberation of the Iraqis began, Fox News was the ONLY news channel to caption their news coverage 24/7, that is, UNTIL last night (3/25) at 11 pm. A bunch of us had emailed our thanks to Fox News for the non stop captioning and asking them to keep it up. Now, I feel like our emails went unheeded. I'm frustrated to no end. I don't know what else to do. I've tried calling to talk to a live person but always fail to do so.
Here's something that doesn't make any sense to me. Fox News is the top rated news network. MSNBC is DEAD last in the ratings. BUT MSNBC captions more than Fox News does. How can that be? You'd think Fox News would have the means and the money to provide 24/7 captioning. Just imagine Fox News being the only news channel to provide captioning 24/7, you would blow away the competition even more by drawing more deaf viewers. You see, The Weather Channel made news in deaf history by being the first and ONLY station to provide 24/7 captioning. It was advertised in the deaf newspapers all over the country. Fox News could break huge barriers in doing this. You all have been bold these last few years. Why not be a little bolder and venture a little further by providing 24/7 captioning?
Fair and Balanced? Yes as far as the news reporting and No as far as captioning.
We Report and You Decide? How the heck can we decide if the news is not captioned full-time?
Maybe it's time for Fox News to live up to its slogans.
Operation Iraqi Freedom is very important to many of us and we're simply unable to keep up with it without nonstop captioning.
I would recommend that when (not if) Fox News does provide 24/7, that you all advertise it like crazy on air. You will definitely gain deaf viewers. Don't let them be stuck to watching MSNBC or CNN.
Thank you,
xxxxx xxxxx
Knoxville, Tn
C'mon everyone. Help out a fellow FReeper. Thanks!!