Piece Comment

Review of Arcade Girl


This piece could use tightening and the levels are off throughout. However, the reporter has done an interesting series of stories documenting social change in China. Her perspective is fairly fresh -- she doesn't have the voice of a journalist so much as that of a young woman who's worked and studied there. This piece, about the very limited amount of sex education available to young people in a country with an official family planning policy has an astonishing revelation in it -- namely that a fairly relied upon source of information for college students comes from porn movies and porn shops. I think these pieces smoothed out and cut down would be worth running as a series perhaps with a two-way with the reporter.