This is a great story of the moment that’s made a splash online, and then “graduated” to the inevitable Today Show appearance. The sensation started with a YouTube video of 29 year old Sarah Churman, who has been deaf her whole life, hearing her own voice for the first time after a sophisticated, surgically implanted hearing device was turned on.
There’s not to much to comment on the video, other than that it’s wonderful and heartwarming. However something jumped out at me when I watched her Today Show appearance. Can you find what it is?
It can’t be a mistake that Sarah’s right arm, sporting a sleeve of tattoos in the YouTube video, was obscured behind her husband’s back during the whole interview. Fascinating. What exactly were the Today Show producers afraid of? That if Sarah didn’t look wholesome enough that the story would somehow lose some of its appeal? And why would Sarah agree to this character alteration? I’m sorry, but I find it nearly implausible that her ink-coated arm just happened to be hidden the whole time.
