This is not a piece. The major problem is it's a cut of a phone interview. While the story is interesting and it might have made a great piece, it's really unusable as is. Phone interviews are only okay on a local level for a talk show or for breaking news on a national level. Sometimes a producer might want to use a phone interview for dramatic effect. Say you want to call someone while telling the story to check in or if it's phone messages or if the piece is about the phone. But this is something that many producers on PRX have to understand. Why would a station license a phone interview? They can do their own phone interviews if needed. I'm sad to say this because I listened to Jenny Asarnow's other pieces and she shows promise. I just can't recommend this piece to stations.
Review of Rebecca's Name
Dmae Lo Roberts
Posted on March 12, 2005 at 07:03 AM
This is not a piece. The major problem is it's a cut of a phone interview. While the story is interesting and it might have made a great piece, it's really unusable as is. Phone interviews are only okay on a local level for a talk show or for breaking news on a national level. Sometimes a producer might want to use a phone interview for dramatic effect. Say you want to call someone while telling the story to check in or if it's phone messages or if the piece is about the phone. But this is something that many producers on PRX have to understand. Why would a station license a phone interview? They can do their own phone interviews if needed. I'm sad to say this because I listened to Jenny Asarnow's other pieces and she shows promise. I just can't recommend this piece to stations.