{"id":431,"date":"2006-09-14T23:02:04","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T04:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2006\/09\/14\/the-news-just-got-worse\/"},"modified":"2006-09-14T23:02:04","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T04:02:04","slug":"the-news-just-got-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2006\/09\/14\/the-news-just-got-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"The News Just Got Worse!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The News Just Got Worse!<\/p>\n<p>By Cheryl Heppner<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the two exemptions announced today, the Federal Communications Commission has sent out 250 more letters granting captioning exemptions!  They are apparently poised to send out another huge batch of letters that will amount to a total of about 550 exemptions.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing about these other exemptions has appeared in the FCC&#8217;s Daily Digest to notify the public. The FCC is just making them available in the Public Reference Room.  You wouldn&#8217;t even know to look for them there.<\/p>\n<p>AND IF YOU CAN BELIEVE THIS, THEY&#8217;VE GIVEN PERMANENT EXEMPTIONS EVEN TO PETITIONERS WHO ONLY REQUESTED TEMPORARY EXEMPTIONS<\/p>\n<p>I have sent emails on behalf of NVRC to the FCC Chairman and the Commissioners to protest this outrage.  I hope you will too.  In a meeting with some of the FCC staff earlier this year, and being asked how I would suggest dealing with the hundreds of requests for waivers.  My advice was to be firm about enforcing the regulations, particularly in light of the fact that the regulations had been in effect for 10 years so they had plenty of time to plan for it.  I also said that if any exemptions were granted at all, they should be short-term exemptions.  I never anticipated that our patience of the last 10 years would be rewarded with this terrible decision.<\/p>\n<p>Speak Up Now!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; You don&#8217;t need to give a lot of detail.  Just call, or write an email. Give your name.  Don&#8217;t worry about being emotional; the FCC needs to know this is an emotional issue for us.  Say that you feel about learning that the FCC has made a decision to grant a large number of captioning exemptions, and ask that it be reversed immediately You can add something personal if you like, about how this is going to affect you or someone you know who is being shut out of life because those programs aren&#8217;t accessible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The News Just Got Worse! By Cheryl Heppner In addition to the two exemptions announced today, the Federal Communications Commission has sent out 250 more letters granting captioning exemptions! They are apparently poised to send out another huge batch of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2006\/09\/14\/the-news-just-got-worse\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deaf-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p752R-6X","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16470,"url":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2011\/11\/01\/fcc-cracks-down-on-religious-broadcasters\/","url_meta":{"origin":431,"position":0},"title":"FCC cracks down on religious broadcasters","author":"Grant Laird Jr","date":"November 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"FCC cracks down on religious broadcasters By BROOKS BOLIEK October31, 2011 If a church broadcasts the word of God on TV without closed captions, it risks incurring the wrath of the FCC. 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