BBC Sign Language Interpreter making stuff up.
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Crap, just saw this is from August last year. However...
Website said:
BBC News: A prominent BBC News sign language interpreter has been sacked after complaints from deaf people revealed that she was ‘sometimes embellishing, sometimes just making stuff up.’
Leslie Grange, 32, has been a sign language interpreter for seven years. In a statement today she cited ‘personal difficulties – particularly a crushing professional boredom’ as to why, over the past six months, she had started deviating from what was actually being reported, giving deaf viewers an often ‘wildly different version of events’.
“Questions started to be raised around the time of the Japanese earthquake when several viewers emailed us to complain about our reports of radioactive zombies sighted near the nuclear reactor. We dismissed them as some sort of organised hoax.”
“However, when there were similar numbers getting in touch to ask if Rebekah Brooks was really in trouble for raping a monkey, and why the BBC was claiming that, as a special summer treat, the Prime Minister had told the nation’s teenagers they didn’t have to pay for anything any more, we realised something was wrong.”
“I would like to apologise to everyone in the deaf community,” Grange told reporters today, “though when I had Cameron tell Obama “your statesmen-like profile leaves my willy plump” – well, frankly I don’t think that is so very far from the truth.”
LinkyLeslie Grange, 32, has been a sign language interpreter for seven years. In a statement today she cited ‘personal difficulties – particularly a crushing professional boredom’ as to why, over the past six months, she had started deviating from what was actually being reported, giving deaf viewers an often ‘wildly different version of events’.
“Questions started to be raised around the time of the Japanese earthquake when several viewers emailed us to complain about our reports of radioactive zombies sighted near the nuclear reactor. We dismissed them as some sort of organised hoax.”
“However, when there were similar numbers getting in touch to ask if Rebekah Brooks was really in trouble for raping a monkey, and why the BBC was claiming that, as a special summer treat, the Prime Minister had told the nation’s teenagers they didn’t have to pay for anything any more, we realised something was wrong.”
“I would like to apologise to everyone in the deaf community,” Grange told reporters today, “though when I had Cameron tell Obama “your statesmen-like profile leaves my willy plump” – well, frankly I don’t think that is so very far from the truth.”
Well, I view the dancer in the corner as the perfect storm of BBC 'sensibilities' and the capital-D Deaf agenda. What is wrong with subtitles - esp. when the dancer makes a programme unwatchable for the majority? And I'm talking about NEWS24's lunchtime bulletins here, not just the stuff on through the night.
I'm hoping the small-d deaf community share this view.
I'm hoping the small-d deaf community share this view.
dxg said:
Well, I view the dancer in the corner as the perfect storm of BBC 'sensibilities' and the capital-D Deaf agenda. What is wrong with subtitles - esp. when the dancer makes a programme unwatchable for the majority? And I'm talking about NEWS24's lunchtime bulletins here, not just the stuff on through the night.
I'm hoping the small-d deaf community share this view.
I totally agree 100%.I'm hoping the small-d deaf community share this view.
TheEnd said:
Funk said:
You do realise The Poke is like The Onion and The Daily Mash...?
I'm amazed that people think an idiot admitting to tax fraud is a troll, and then they read a story like this and swallow the lot!You tinhat brigade are too eager to dismiss the truth.
dxg said:
Well, I view the dancer in the corner as the perfect storm of BBC 'sensibilities' and the capital-D Deaf agenda. What is wrong with subtitles - esp. when the dancer makes a programme unwatchable for the majority? And I'm talking about NEWS24's lunchtime bulletins here, not just the stuff on through the night.
I'm hoping the small-d deaf community share this view.
The BBC could save a fortune on sound people and audio recording equipment if they just stopped bothering to do it, and relied on subtitles instead. I'm sure you'll be fine with that - after all, you can read and they're putting the subtitles in anyway.I'm hoping the small-d deaf community share this view.
In all seriousness, BSL is a different language to written and spoken English with a completely different grammar and structure - it's not just a word for word equivalence. There are a plenty of deaf people for whom BSL is their first language and English relegated to second - including some, who just like illiterate hearing people, comprehend "spoken" language fine but not written. Many just prefer signed broadcast - just as you prefer hearing words rather than reading them.
Do you bemoan provision of disabled toilets and parking spaces too?
dxg said:
Well, I view the dancer in the corner as the perfect storm of BBC 'sensibilities' and the capital-D Deaf agenda. What is wrong with subtitles - esp. when the dancer makes a programme unwatchable for the majority? And I'm talking about NEWS24's lunchtime bulletins here, not just the stuff on through the night.
I'm hoping the small-d deaf community share this view.
I really don't understand why it would remotely bother you? I couldn't give a shiny sI'm hoping the small-d deaf community share this view.
t about the person doing sign language in the corner of the screen on the odd program, it's just a non-issue for me and, I assumed, anyone else.If they chose to do it with prime time programs or films then sure, I think that would be disproportionate but seriously, "sensibilities", "deaf agenda"?
Mojooo said:
That is pretty out of order on deaf viewers - bh.
This h.
The reason they have such a service is solely to benefit the deaf and I know how infuriated i would be if i was to be relying on it and have some girl make it up and be getting paid for it. Hope she never gets a job similar again and suffers as a result from her selfish actions... Rant over lol 
madmover said:
Mojooo said:
That is pretty out of order on deaf viewers - bh.
This h. The reason they have such a service is solely to benefit the deaf and I know how infuriated i would be if i was to be relying on it and have some girl make it up and be getting paid for it. Hope she never gets a job similar again and suffers as a result from her selfish actions... Rant over lol Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff