Wouldn’t it be great if we could become RPRs by just attending a three-day seminar for $880, taking a written knowledge test and a production test like videographers?
Not only have we never seen a videographer who can write 225 wpm, we’ve never seen one that can read back steno/testimony. We’ve never seen one that can do realtime, captioning, or CART. And why is that? It’s because these are skills developed through years and years of hard work that belong exclusively to verbatim stenographic reporters.
The very nice folks who happen to be videographers should not have any vote at all that could in any way influence or ever lead to influence over NCRA – an organization whose members have said over and over and over again that it should only represent the interests of verbatim stenographic reporters.
Wake up, NCRA!
Frank N. Sense
P.S. Please make sure that NCRA has an e-mail address on file so that they are able to notify you when voting begins on July 30th.
P.P.S. Also, please send this blog to 10 verbatim stenographic reporters so that they know about the very important vote on July 30th.