KBIA Addreall Story

The story about Adderall was especially interesting to me. The one aspect that stands out to me about this story is the approach this reporter took and the fact that it was very unbiased, where a topic about student drug use reported on by a student can get biased. The story simply presented us, the listener, with facts from Adderall sellers and consumers, doctors and the University administration perspective. These various opinions are presented to us in a way that helps us draw our own conclusion about the problem, opposed to pointing us in one direction or the other. Radio stories may be easier for doing stories like this, because without visual images this story was presented more anonymously and clearly. I do not think that every story has to have some hidden message or agenda, but many of them do, and this story does a good job of having no agenda. It was simply about the facts. The reporter also made this story relevant by airing it around finals time, when this issue is especially prevalent. I personally thought the whole backdrop of the story was why would college students need to take a drug simply to concentrate on schoolwork. Is there so much pressure on students to perform well that they need drugs to help them? Those were my thoughts and biases while listening to this story, and it was good that the story did not have any bias like that, because that allowed the listeners to come to their own conclusions on this subject, which is the goal of journalism.