GPX's Pick O' The Month: Tonei Glavinic's If I Could Talk to a Presidential Candidate

[Kameisha Jerae]

***** Engaging, Political, Simple

I never knew that Alaska was the largest state. I didn't know that many Alaskans weren't able to vote either.... neither did I know that Alaska hadn't voted for a democratic candidate since 1964. Another interesting thing is that I never knew that Alaska had a problem with the No Child Left Behind Act too. (I'm from DC and the NCLB Act is non-existent in our neck of the woods as well...)

Tonei did a fabulous job in presenting such in depth coverage of something so important, in such a small frame of time. Not only that, but - even though it has no ambient sound, interviews, or sounds other than his narrative voice - he managed to keep my focus the ENTIRE time. Presenting facts, ideas, issues, and personality in a single assignment was amazingly done well.

The tone was formal, yet something about it still spoke to me as a teen myself... maybe because he was a teen too... but I enjoyed it very much. Thanks for the facts Glavinic.

Simple and right to the point. Love it.



To listen to the piece: http://www.prx.org/pieces/23556
To see the licensor's page: http://www.prx.org/group/alaskateenmedia/
To see my page: http://www.prx.org/user/ms_hodge/

[Tonei Glavinic]

Thanks for the review!

Tonei

[Jones Franzel]

Yeah Kam! Totally insightful. I'm with you.