hows-your-news

Watch Michele Bachmann Flee From a Person With Disabilities Who Wants To Interview Her

Rich Juzwiak · 10/23/12 01:10PM

The clip above comes from How's Your News: Election 2012, the latest film from this traveling group of people with disabilities who report on various events. We posted about the movie last week, but this scene bears its own examination as it is a literal illustration of the way that people with disabilities are ignored in this country, especially by grandstanding politicians. It's particularly important for showing the resulting frustration: Jeremy Vest (who has Williams Syndrome) actually calls out to Bachmann, "What's your problem?"

The Special People's News Club

Daniel Barnum-Swett · 01/07/10 05:00PM

Despite its brief run, How's Your News? was a well-received television experiment, in which newscasters with varying developmental disabilities interviewed entertainers and politicians. Here, they ask Bill Hader the hard-hitting questions, and still find time for hugs.

Choire · 10/26/07 10:49AM

Ben Karlin, who was an executive producer and head "Daily Show" writer for eight years, comes out to talk about how jealous "mainstream" journalists are about the Jon Stewart show. "They would always come up to us, everyone without fail would say, and especially like the big on-camera people, would come up to us and say 'God I wish I could do what you do.' Really? Do it! You have a camera, you have a microphone, you have a television show.... It was a prison of their own construction." [Huffington Post]

A World Without Journalists

abalk · 09/12/07 09:40AM

Turns out that when readers can actually select news stories that they're interested in, their choices are somewhat different from what traditional media wants to feed them. A Project for Excellence in Journalism report reveals that what people Digg and Reddit never happens overseas.