Today, a judge declared that radio is unfair to Deaf people. Radio has 90 days to figure out how to make itself available to those who are hard of hearing.
Said the judge, “After I thought about how paper money is unfair to blind people, I started thinking about how other people with less-than-abilities could benefit from my help. Since the public owns the airwaves, it’s only logical that they be made readily available to everyone to avoid any inconvenience. Even if they can’t hear.”
Said a spokesman for the American Association for Deaf People Who Want Radios (AADPWWR), “This is an important statement and this judge showed excellent judgement. There are deaf people out there who don’t know what they’re listening to. Many times, deaf people try to listen and enjoy the radio but accidentally end up listening to either static or Air America.”
Air America and static have been fighting a vicious ratings war in the last year.
No statement was available from any of the radio stations who might be impacted by this recommendation.
that is so dang funny! ducky hits a home run with this one.
I’m sorry; what’d you say?
Will this affect HAM & CB radio as well? It wouldn’t be fair to the deaf to be unaware of who they aren’t listening to from around the globe.
the HAM radio would be unaffected, by virtue of its smoky aroma. CB radio would be required to shock the “listener” if they didn’t respond to the audio portion of the show, thus involving the hearing impaired paricipant.
see, if they just ask US, they could solve all the problems without much trouble!
I dunno, I listen to static far more than Air America, I doubt there is any competion there.
I should open up a karaoke bar for the mute. It’ll probably end up being just a lot of standing around holding a microphone with maybe a little dancing thrown in for good measure–kind of like going to an Ashlee Simpson concert–but at least I won’t be discriminating against any differently-abled people.
Wait a minute, I thought that now that the new, Golden Age of Peace and Enlightenment ushered in by the Grand Democratic Victory of 2006 was going to cure all ills through the magical abilities of embryonic stem cells.
So isn’t this ruling pretty much going to be made obsolete in January, ’07?
In a furter ruling the judge stated that he is considering action against Rosie O’Donnell for discriminating against people with good taste…
But there is already radio provided for deaf people…
It’s called television.
Been trying to think of something clever all afternoon, but all I get is Garret Morris hollering, “OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT, GENERALISIMO FRANSISCO FRANCO IS STILL DEAD!”
//It’ll probably end up being just a lot of standing around holding a microphone with maybe a little dancing thrown in for good measure–kind of like going to an Ashlee Simpson concert…//
Ha ha! Excellent!
Just what we need. The deaf need to be aware of the obnoxious “Emergency Broadcast System”, so they know when to turn their radios off too.