Please submit ideas on here for what you think we all should do to make Netflix, Blockbuster Online, and the mass media to caption everything. Many of us already sent comments to the FCC.
My ideas are:
Send a letter to every major metro newspaper in the country
Twenty-four hour boycott of television
Enlist Hollywood insiders for assistance [...]
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.
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Edited to add: I just saw an easier way to comment on Jamie Berke’s Outspoken blog. http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/upload_v2.cgi
FCC Consumer Facts - How to Comment
The FCC just e-mailed me a pdf file explaining how to make comments on a topic. To view it, click above on FCC Comsumer Facts - How to Comment.
This is very helpful, [...]
TDI has released a quicktime video explaining about FCC approving approximately 300 requests for television shows not to provide closed captions.
http://www.tdi-online.org/FCC/FCC-CC100406_OC%2BAD.mov
For more information on FCC and how they regulate closed captions, and how you can contact FCC to complain about this go to: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/closedcaption.html
I just sent an e-mail to the FCC (fccinfo@fcc.gov) and this is [...]
