Summary: In a 2009 survey by the CDC, nearly 1500 Indiana high school students said they had carried a gun for at least one day during the previous 30 days. Y-Press journalist Andy Yang, age 17, visited the maximum-security Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility for males to figure out just how easy it is for teens to obtain guns.
Y-Press’s segment on teens with guns is both informative and long overdue. Of the 4 segments recently posted, Andy Yang’s segment on access to guns is my favorite. In this piece, Yang interviews youth incarcerated at the Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility in Indiana about how easy it is to get ahold of guns. This script is well written, and Yang uses great interview clips and ambient sound. As the reporter and narrator, Yang does a great job of communicating his personal unfamiliarity with correctional facilities and street violence, while not furthering the demonization and marginalization of the young men he interviews. In clearer terms, he sets up the piece so that the listener can hear these stories as the the stories of young men, not criminals. He provides an informative piece that does not demonize, exotify, or other his interviewees. That is a skill.
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This piece belongs to the series "Teens and Guns: Illegal Uses "
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Olivia Cueva
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 07:41 PM | Permalink
Review of "Teens and Illegal Guns: Access"
Y-Press’s segment on teens with guns is both informative and long overdue. Of the 4 segments recently posted, Andy Yang’s segment on access to guns is my favorite. In this piece, Yang interviews youth incarcerated at the Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility in Indiana about how easy it is to get ahold of guns. This script is well written, and Yang uses great interview clips and ambient sound. As the reporter and narrator, Yang does a great job of communicating his personal unfamiliarity with correctional facilities and street violence, while not furthering the demonization and marginalization of the young men he interviews. In clearer terms, he sets up the piece so that the listener can hear these stories as the the stories of young men, not criminals. He provides an informative piece that does not demonize, exotify, or other his interviewees. That is a skill.