Better Bad News: Political satire. Half true more or less 100% of the time.
BetterBadNews (BBN) is a political satire show produced by alternative media and stage performers with a cast of talented citizen public speakers mocking mainstream media and corporate culture in a panel discussion format.
BBN premiered as a webcast on September 16th, 2003 at Berkeley Community Media and is accessible on the internet at www.betterbadnews.com since October 20th, 2004.
The full archive of BetterBadNews episodes is accessible at http://betterbadnews.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc
Keywords: Satire Politics Half True News Podcast Scripted Improvisation
BBN mocks the false distinction of professional vs community media merging local professional actors and talented young performers drawn from local schools and bay area families in the performing arts with citizen public speakers to produce a weekly program of political satire and spoken word theater for radio podcast and online video.
Performers Lorrie Holt, familiar to Berkeley Repertory Theater audiences and actors Kurt Reinhardt, Clifford Goler, Mel Gordon, James King and David Winter perform with young performers from local school dramatic arts departments including Galen Corr as Berkeley Kid and introducing local rapper ThreeFingazUp.
Breaking News Broken Here
BetterBadNews is produced by George Coates and Al Green with technical design by web master Michael Hauser. Developed in 2003 as a class project of Berkeley Adult School’s public speaking program BBN is recorded weekly at Berkeley Community Media directed by Brent Hendricks, Dan Corr, Chris Read and John Parkin.
Special Thanks: Zulu Spear, David Burian, Betty Halpern Eddy Falconer, Bonnie Hughes, Berkeley Arts Festival and Thea Ruoho.
Control room direction by Brent Hendrick and Dan Corr using facilities and services of Berkeley Community Media.
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