Nothing new about the CBS-TV's indifference and attitudes toward deaf people from time to time.
Brian Riley, the "Save Our Deaf Schools" (SODS), an e-commentator and coordinator, personally urged Dr. Alan Hurwitz to brush up his protest skills against the CBS-TV to inquire why the network broadcaster of the Super Bowl not to air the full segment of the National Athemn in American Sign Language (ASL) by the Florida School of the Deaf students. Riley pointed out that Dr. Hurwitz got involved in the past protest against the CBS-TV for not captioning its own tv shows while other national networks - ABC and NBC and PBS already captioned many tv shows in the early 1980s.
That is evidently the growing movements and trends to suppress the existence of American Sign Language (ASL) within the American corporations in favor of so-called miracles - cochlear implants and deny such opportunity for deaf babies and youngsters from using ASL for their language and intellectual development.
Real SLAP ON THE FACE of Florida School of the Deaf students travelling pretty far to Miami from St. Augustine, FL! More than 6 hours of traveling times for those students and chaperons!
PLEASE write a letter of disappointment to the CBS-TV to ask why the network chose not to air the full segement of the National Athemn in ASL or post the segment of FSDB students signed in ASL on the CBS-TV's website.
Here is the e-link for expressing your thoughts to the CBS-TV:
http://www.cbs.com/info/user_services/fb_global_form.php
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Monday, February 8, 2010
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Robert
ReplyDeleteWhy do you let a hearing man Brian Riley be our spokesman? Get a DEAF
spokesman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteFYI, Brian Riley never claim to be our national spokesperson.
Brian Riley is very resourceful and loyal person to the causes on the behalf of deaf communities around the world.
We ought to be real blessful to have Brian Riley in our deaf community. I always will stand by Brian Riley no matter how many of you dissed him.
Who have done anything enriched for us, deaf community like Brian Riley supplying info for us?
RLM
I will not write a letter to CBS *for you*. No thank you.
ReplyDeleteSince you made the recent blog as of February 2, 2010, "Is Audism Involved with the NFL Contest?" It was about the little CI girl with or without ASL who won the contest. Unfortunately, you are *NOT* our hero.
Anon2
It is a BIG joke having Alan to do that.
ReplyDeleteHe is just wearing kid gloves all the time.
He cannot even protest.
He did nothing for oral school in St. Louis.
He may not last long if he is just doing nothing about audism and the issues involved.
RLM,
ReplyDelete"That is evidently the growing movements and trends to suppress the existence of ASL within the American corporations in favor of so-called miracles-- cochlear implants and deny such opportunity for deaf babies and youngsters from using ASL for their language and intellectual development."
Can you actually back that up with proof that CBS is doing what you claim, that is, suppressing the existence of ASL?
You're looking for conspiracies in every corner, RLM, to the point that you're starting to sound paranoid.
I very much doubt that CBS cut the full segment of the National Anthem that was signed due to a corporate policy of sign language suppression.
It was far more likely that there were air time constraints, and the anthem certainly took second fiddle to what was the focus, the championship football game itself.
Ann_C
The captioning had been provided for the National Anthem
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