Vidal and Doug

[budge]

On Tue, 28 May 2002 at 2:42pm Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Is closed-captioning on TV done by voice recognition? I
> was watching the news one night in a loud bar, so all I
> could catch of the soundtrack was the text - which kept
> rendering the name of the governor of New York as
> "Pack-tacky." Which is pretty funny, but I'm guessing
> not some wag's critique-on-the-fly.

My all time favorite (it is now a standard line around my
house) came while watching the Russian news broadcast that
NWI broadcasts.  The story was some financial scandal or
another having to due privatization of some company and
where the captioning should have read "... so where are the
profits ...?" but instead came across "...so where are the
prostitutes...?"

(This is a Russian language broadcast overdubbed by an
*incrediblely* bored interpreter that regularly sighs in the
middle of sentences as though he is too weary to go on.)

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