New Mexico may require closed captioning on TVs in public spaces

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3. About time. I never understood the absolute stupidity of having TVs showing

the news or a sports preview/recap/commentary in bars that were so noisy that even the best of ears could not catch a single word and only lip readers knew what was going on - especially these days where the side videos show a different topic than what is being discussed.

For those of us who absolutely need CC, the only good TV occurs where the idiot sports commentators espouse their drivel, where ads are on, and where Fox News is being shown. They become so much better when you hear nothing. Best, of course, is when they run ads at the bottom while the talking heads are performing. Then one imagines what they are saying about the products being shown below. Their gestures can be very hilarious in that context.