Goals and Actions Regarding Captioning

Goals:

To have captioning on all television shows; all internet videos made by mass media such as CNN, ABC, PBS, Netflix and BlockBuster Online; and movies in theatres.

Actions: We do these one at a time. If the FCC does not respond to our comments, then we would move on to step 2 and so on.

1. File comments with the FCC. See ‘Update Regarding FCC and Closed Captioning’ post to see how.
2. Send a letter to every major metro newspaper in the country about this issue.
3. A twenty-four hour boycott of television by the deaf and hearing allies. (We would issue a press release beforehand, so the media knows what’s going on.)
4. Enlist insider allies such as the movie critic, Arch Campbell, like Jean Boutcher suggested in her comment on ‘Purpose of this Blog’.

Before we proceed with any action other than the first one, I think we need to find out how much does it cost to caption each one of those. I’m sure it costs differently to caption a television show than it does for a movie that’ll be presented in the theatre. So any suggestions on how we find this information? We need this information so we can put it in our letters to the media and press releases. The media responds to cold, hard facts that can be independently verified and personal perspectives on how this will impact us.

Thoughts?

~ Deaf Pundit

Edited to add:

Thanks, Jared for your comment. I wanted to clarify that this is not set in stone, and ideas on how to proceed with this and prioritizing which action to take is more than welcome! I still want some hard statistics on this though.