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Posted on 08/17/2007 11:57:17 AM PDT by wallcrawlr
TOKYO (Reuters) - An embarrassed Japanese government has cut the subsidy, but a Tokyo TV company said on Friday it would carry on making a striptease news show with sign language for hearing-impaired viewers.
The government made grants totaling 400,000 yen ($3,500) to help cover production of the weekly five-minute program on satellite TV, which features a newsreader who removes her clothes between news items that she delivers in sign language.
The funding dried up when the government, under fire for supporting "Naked Sign Language News," changed funding guidelines for programming aimed at the disabled to exclude pornography, local media reported.
"Of course we will continue making the program," said Shinichiro Fukuyama, a spokesman for makers Paradise Television. "We weren't doing it for the subsidy, we just wanted to make something viewers would enjoy."
Most people who had contacted the station about the program were supportive, saying deaf people had the right to enjoy the same programs as other people, he added.
Deaf/Hard of Hearing ping list
with interests in health and society
Should have called it “Just The Bare Facts”!
Do the “signers” slowly remove their gloves during the broadcast?
Well, they’re saving on wardrobe.
Well, the weather guy had to figure out a way to point to the different areas while his hands were busy signing.
Sounds logical to me.
The only male on the news team, perhaps?
Reminds me of the old bit about what people from Michigan do when you ask them where they live in Michigan. Hold their had up and point on the hand where they live. Next time you see a man do this, when they are done say: "Sure glad you don't live in Florida." :)
Titilating news?
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