Publicity
As spokesman for the National Youth Rights Association, Koroknay-Palicz first major media citation dates to 2001 when Slate.com interviewed him. Since then he has appeared on several television and radio networks, including two appearances on CNN and Fox News
Koroknay-Palicz has been quoted by several nationally-recognized publications on a variety of topics related to youth rights. They include the subject of student rights in the Christian Science Monitor; youth suffrage in the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times; the legal drinking age in The New York Times; internet censorship in the Chicago Tribune; curfews in the Jackson Free Press, and; the minimum driving age in USA Today and the Associated Press. He has also been cited in international publications such as The Guardian.
He has also been cited on the topics of ageism in the Olympics, graduated driver licensing, civics education public schools, the Bong Hits 4 Jesus trial, youth criminalization, and several other issues.
He has also been noted for his opposition to the drinking age limit policies of Mothers Against Drunk Driving who want to keep it at age 21.
Koroknay-Palicz and Robert Epstein co-founded the First Annual National Youth Rights Day which occurred on April 14, 2010 Epstein wrote The Young Person's Bill of Rights for this event.
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