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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hi, I'm Beth Haller
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm a professor of Mass Communication\Nat Towsen University in Maryland
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I also teach Disability Studies there\Nand at several other campuses
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I teach at City University of New York\Nand their Disability Studies programme
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I teach at York University in Toronto\Nand their Disability Studies programme
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I teach at University of Texas, Arlington\Nand their Disability Studies minor
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I've been doing research since\Nthe early 90's
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,About media representations of people\Nwith disabilities
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I have a kind of unique\Nrelationship to the ADA
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I did my dissertation on\Nhow the news media covered it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So before I went to Temple University\Nin Philadelphia to get my PhD
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was at University of Maryland College\NPark getting my Masters
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started that in 1989
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there's a reason for all these numbers\N(laughs) these dates
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in 1988 is when the Deaf President\NNow movement happened
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That gathered at university in DC, and I\Nthink somewhere in the back of my mind
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew about what was happening because I\Nwas a journalist before I became academic
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when I started at College Park in 1989\NI ended up doing an article for a class
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,About a deaf student at Gallaudet and I\Ngot very interested in the deaf community
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a huge deaf community\Nin the DC area
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doing my Masters thesis on how the\Ndeaf community was represented
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before, during and after \NDeaf President Now
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the New York Times and the\NWashington Post
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was a jumping-off point
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I left College Park it was 1991\Nand so the ADA had just been passed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I got to Temple to start \Nworking on my PhD
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew that I wanted to still work in\Nthe area of disability
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we just had this major disability\Nrights law passed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember it more as a focus\Nof my research
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cause I don't necessarily remember seeing\Nthe actual coverage on the day it happened
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1990, but I do remember looking at all\Nthe coverage cause that was the subject
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of my dissertation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it was really interesting to look\Nat it as an academic
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to kind of watch it happen and\Nthen not happen (laughs)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As it moved into the future
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So my dissertation looked at how the\Nmainstream news media
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, all the big news magazines\Nand the major newspapers back then
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I finished my dissertation in '94\NGraduated in '95
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it was very early days of the ADA so it\Nwasn't really being implemented yet
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because they gave several years for\Npeople to get into compliance
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as the years have passed it's been\Nvery interesting to watch how things
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Weren't happening
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think what we all thought was\Ngoing to happen was:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Congress was going to pass this major\Ndisability rights law
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And people would then follow it\Nbecause it's now federal law
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not to discriminate based on disability
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that isn't what happened (laughs)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And from a media standpoint, that really\Nkind of hurt ADA because-
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've even had this conversation with\Ndisability rights scholars and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Disability rights activists-\Nbecause they I think thought
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In that same way that it's now law\Nand everything will be fine
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there was such a history of being\Ncovered in the media so badly
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That the activists thought they could get\Nthis past and everything would be fine
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they didn't need the\Nmedia for anything
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I come onto the scene, I start going\Nto Society for Disability studies,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meetings in the early 90's,\Nstarted presenting my research
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even the disability community in those\Nfirst early years right after the ADA
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Didn't understand why the\Nmedia was important
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I remember presenting\Nat a conference
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At a Disability Studies conference\NAnd people coming up to me and saying
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"That's really nice that you do work on\Nmedia, but we have bigger things we
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Need to be dealing with: getting people\Njobs, getting people proper education
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Getting people out of nursing homes."\NMy response to everybody was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How do you think you're going to do that\Nif you're not getting out information
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Into public opinion, so if you're not\Nable to change public opinion
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can you get these\Nthings accomplished?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And how do you get public opinion\Nchanged? You get a proper narrative
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Going in the media." And now there's\Nactual disability studies, research
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And disability activists who've talked\Nabout this in the early 2000's
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,About how they took the wrong tactic\Nafter the ADA was passed