DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, September 4, 2014
-- nation's longest serving deaf TV newscaster is retiring
Karen Meyer, who is deaf, has served as Chicago's TV ABC 7
Eyewitness News newscaster for 23 years. Her last broadcast
is on September 28th. For a newscaster, either deaf or hearing,
to survive 23 years in the volatile world of TV news reporting,
is amazing. Why is she stepping down? Simple - she wants to move
to California with her family. She reported on Disability
Issues. Who is her replacement with the program? No one is
replacing her!
-- Ellen DeGeneres shows interest in a deaf person
Kevin DaSilva, who is deaf, and his fiancee Stacey Terrasi,
who is not deaf, attracted interest from the the producer of
the Ellen DeGeneres TV Show. This couple wants to have
children. But because of Stacey's medical condition, they
cannot bear a child. Instead they are seeking a surrogate.
Interest in their case has built up nationally, thus getting
attention from Ellen's staff for possible TV appearance.
-- an attorney asks for half-dozen interpreters
A deaf man is awaiting trial in Oklahoma. The sign language
he uses is not ASL. The attorney defending the deaf man
has asked for six interpreters, saying communications
with him is exhausting. The district attorney said it
is ok. The problem is that interpreters for the deaf
man cannot be found in Oklahoma, but is found in Texas.
The judge is not too happy about lack of such interpreters
in Oklahoma and wants the defense to look harder for them
instead of having to go to Texas. At this point, the
judge is waiting for the results of the interpreter
search before making his decision.
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