Matlin's Tweet Gets Action from MTV

An episodeof the MTV series True Life was re-edited thanks to actress Marlee Matlin. She and her daughter noticed the True Life episode called I'm Deaf had no closed captioning. Matlin first used Twitter to express her concern. She tweeted:

"As my daughter would say 'DUHH!' MTV show "True Life" about deaf kids WITHOUT closed captions-FAIL!"

Matlin's post wound up getting 38,000 people to re-tweet her message. When it reached MTV's offices, the network responded:

"Thx @MarleeMatlin for pointing out an unfortunate oversight; we'll add captions to the online segment ASAP so all in our audience can watch."

You can watch the episode here.