DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, November 13, 2014
-- a hero we never knew about
Gerald McCarthy was a hero to the deaf during
the early eighties. He was the director of sales
and marketing for Zenith, the #1 manufacturer of
TV, radios, stereo at that time. When closed
captioning required use of a special decoder,
he had Zenith come up with a TV that showed
captions without a decoder. Other manufacturers
avoided captions, not Zenith. He was just inducted
into the Consumer Electronics Hall Of Fame. Zenith
dead now? No, it is part of LG Electronics based
in South Korea.
-- a deaf device claimed to help the hearing
We have deaf devices that help the hearing. One
example is TV captions in noisy bars. But do
vibrating devices help the hearing? Yes,
according to David Bobier, who is not deaf. He
is giving a talk about vibrators at The Function
Keys conference in Hamilton, Ontario. He says
that vibrations help the hearing with their
healing of sicknesses and pains. Is he
right or wrong? Just don't know!
-- Bad Judge and the deaf
Bad Judge is a TV comedy series that was just
cancelled by NBC few days ago. This program
has few more segments to go before it will
end for good. Maybe the reason for it being
cancelled was the silly program that involved
a deaf character. He was accused of a crime,
but the judge did not know what to do because
of his deafness. Were the program writers
aware of courts requiring interpreters?
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