| The Seven Remaining Channel One Anchors |
 Janet Choi |
|
 Seth Doane |
 Andrew Yani |
 Derrick Shore |
 Alexandra Panther |
 Erroll Barnett |
Because schools want TV equipment, they enter into a contract with
Channel One. To keep the equipment, the students must watch the TV
show called Channel One News. The contract is tough. Schools must
show students this TV show on at least 90% of school days. Some schools
are required to show the program in at least 80% of classrooms. Some
schools are not under the 80% requirement.
All schools agree to show the program in its entirety when they
do show it. These anchors couldn’t get an easier job. Their audience
is under contract to be shown the program they host.
Unlike real reporters and anchors who have to put out a good product
each day or their audience will change channels, this motley
crew of twenty-somethings is assured that no matter how awful
they are,
their audience CAN’T change channels.
The public ought to treat these people with utter contempt. They
make big money hosting this controversial TV show and the controversy
ought to stick to them even if they leave the show. They are
the face of this commercial exploitation. No matter how attractive
they may be, what they are doing is ugly.
There is a myth that Channel One anchors are high school students.
False. Channel One refuses to publish the ages of their anchors.
They fear students will not like them if they knew they were
in the mid-twenties. That appears to be the age of most of
the current
anchors.
Some of them have been , or should have been, out of college
for several years.
