Yesterday the group of MPX 10s loaded onto a school bus and drove down to the Hawaii Public Radio station to deepen their understanding of our current topic: media literacy. Students met with the radio's director of public outreach Gene Evans, news reporter Bill Dorman, and sound technician Jason Taglianatti to hear about how public radio decides what makes it to the air.
When asked by students why the station doesn't cater more to the tastes of younger listeners (they have five shows which play exclusively classical music), Evans replied that younger listeners typically "don't have the chops or life experience to appreciate what we try to do here." He further explained that the radio believe "you gotta be challenged by the music and the news" suggesting it isn't the station's objective to play only things which are entertaining or pleasing to the ear.
Students asked questions about how the radio covers breaking news, whether radio has any advantages over tv, and how the decide which stories are newsworthy. See student blog posts about the field trip to read more about what they learned.
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