How's Your News began back in 1994 at Camp Jabberwocky, a summer camp for adults with physical disabilities where a film director worked with campers, resulting in news shows produced at the camp. This led to a film called "How's Your News?" featuring five of the campers who took a road trip across America. And THAT led to 2004 coverage of the elections, featuring interviews with Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Larry King and many more. Which led to more videos.
And now How's Your News is coming to MTV. Oh, did I mention they are a band? Yup. In fact, they are traveling in the Big Blue Bus across America as I blog (in New Orleans at present) and performing. You can read about their adventures at their blog. And you can read their bios here.
Exciting things like deliberately crashing their bus (oh don't worry, all safe) and meeting John Stamos and interviewing him. It's all over at their blog so go say hi to them and check out their travel photos and more information about their upcoming show. And you can also join in their enthusiasm and spread the word about their show by getting How's Your News stickers, T shirts and copies of their DVD's.
One of the shirts reads: Free the Media. Election coverage by people with disabilities? Very cool.
[visual description: Photo at left: Members of How's Your News cast are seated in front of a full size silver and blue bus with lettering across it that reads "How's Your News?;
Photo at right: The band members are shown performing in the Scoot Inn: Three male members play guitar toward the back of the stage, wearing blue How's Your News shirts, the lead female singer Susan is in the front and Larry, the percussionist, plays from his wheelchair. The other members are Jeremy, Sean, Ronnie, and Bobby. ]
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I just saw the How's Your News? gang and bus in new orleans. So excited to see what there new show is about
The How's Your News? team signed up two new members for the MTV series, both musicians with disabilities - Brendan plays drums, bass and guitar, and Lucas plays guitar and sings. Can't wait for the first episode to air - maybe as soon as July!
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