>From Rog's Facebook page: "Tom Shales, who contributes to my website, writes me: ' I watched Jodie's speech on the web. Whoa. Since I couldn't understand much of what she was saying, I clicked on some closed-captions. These were less than perfect. Jodie said "I share my most special memories with members of the crew." The caption said: "I share my moustache and memories......" This is so funny I wish it could run somewhere ....'"
To which I replied: "Really? All Shales has is to mock someone trying to running closed captioning (or, more likely, using a voice translation machine that makes mistakes?) I'd like very much to invite Shales to try doing that sometime. "Mr Ebert, I love you, but *please* get rid of Mr Shales." (A) I'm curious if any of the panel managed to record the program to see if this was on the OTA broadcast or if (my wager) they simply grabbed the recording for whatever site Shales visited and put it through an automated CC machine. (B) One of the things that I recall Ebert mentioning in the past is that he doesn't watch much TV. That has got to be the reason he's tolerating Shales: he simply doesn't realize how tone-deaf this man is. (C) (and a variation of this question came up with America's Worst TV Columnist Alessandra Stanley) WTF is Tom Shales doing watching this off the Web if he's getting a paycheck from *somebody* to watch TV? Does he not have a DVR? Really? I need my meds. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
