Apparently the Bush administration feels it needs to protect the deaf and hard of hearing from Sabrina, the Teenaged Witch. This is astounding. Over 200 television shows, most of them cartoons, dramas, and sports events, are being cut from the U.S. Department of Education’s closed-captioning list.
Here are the blacklisted shows, and check out the rest of the National Association of the Deaf website. Neil Gaiman posted in his blog that he’s really only found one article about this act of censorship. Surprising. Shocking. Sad.
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