"#1 Party School" review

Ira Glass’s online broadcast, “#1 Party School”, does a very good job at showing the problem he was trying to. The problem is drinking as well as underage drinking. Some of the reasons Glass gives for a need of action seem like bad examples. Some of the problems defined in the broadcast are victimless, for the most part, and become really drawn out. Specifically, some of the problems that either aren’t problems that are that bad or are problems but are given way too much time for how small of a problem they pose are problems such as girls wanting to be slutty, people getting into frat parties with alcohol when the party with alcohol wasn’t supposed to be had in the first place, a “drunk button” that if existed some students would use it along with the reporter who states “I would have pressed the drunk button back when I was in college too” which just seems biased and vain in the way that the reporters opinion or history isn’t really important in a story, and if one were to listen to this part of the broadcast, her comment doesn’t fit in very well at all. However, there are a lot of real problems properly defined in this broadcast.

Some of the more important problems defined with the drinking problem that are mentioned on the broadcast are crime, underage drinking, death, and problems alcohol posses to the community. The problem that was done the best, with interviews, facts, and a show for an actual need for change was the problems the #1 party school had been, and probably still are, posing for nearby communities and families. This part of the broadcast made it very clear that partier’s were posing a threat for the locals, such as the pizza deliverer who had never had alcohol, the second reporter, or the person who had alarms set up in different parts of his yard who it seemed that he had to deal with a lot of partier’s mayhem, especially when he states “if you find a used tampon in your yard, get a stick, and go looking for the condom”. Overall, the producer of this broadcast wants the audience to reach the conclusion that being the #1 part school is a problem that needs action.

Although some of the arguments in the broadcast are weak, and there wasn’t enough time spent on the topics that were most important, this broadcast wasn’t bad. Personally, I believe that at least half of it was irrelevant or uninteresting, but the other half makes up for it. Also, some of the reporters in the broadcast sound just plain angry when they talk about some of the issues which tends to lose the audience. The broadcast could have easily cut at least five minutes off the broadcast if the reporters realized that their opinion didn’t matter for the broadcast. It’s an investigation not a debate. Conclusively, I felt this broadcast was really well made and interesting for about forty out of the sixty-eight minutes, but I felt it lacked a point to the other twenty-eight minutes.

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