Jay;

Interesting! At work they have television monitors in the eating area with Fox News being shown. We have workers who are hearing impaired so they have the written text appear on the monitors as well as the visual/audio presentation. Many times words are spelled incorrectly, omitted (compared to the spoken text) and sometimes go flashing by so fast you cannot read them! On occasion the written text is very different from the spoken word.

I wonder how the text appears on the screen? Having a background in engineering and having worked for Ampex I know the electronics involved. Is it software or a person typing that accounts for the written text? If it is software then a new service pack is needed! :)

Tom


>I talked to the Director of News at one of our local stations not too long ago, and he said that often times they use the electronic files used for the teleprompter to feed their websites. When the text is written to be read on the news they are more concerned about time than they are about whether the word is spelled "see" or "sea." It is supposed to be proofed before it gets sent to the sites, but he said some errors get through anyway.
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>>The article was obviously outsourced, thus accounting for the errors! :) I notice many errors in documents these days.