In a recent public meeting in Douglasville, GA, a public school employee told the meeting that the Southern Baptist Convention had rescinded their1999 resolution opposing Channel One News. When asked where she got that information, she said that a Channel One News employee told her.
The Southern Baptist Convention’s resolution condemning Channel One in all classrooms has never been rescinded. Nothing has changed. The SBC’s position is the same. No resolution about ChannelOne has come up before the SBC since 1999.
The resolution can be found at the SBC’s site
http://www.sbc.net/resolutions/amResolution.asp?ID=1006
Channel One News has never found anyone to introduce a resolution to undo the 1999 resolution or to praise Channel One for anything.Faced with growing opposition in Douglas County, Channel One decided to just lie their way out of trouble. And now they are in worse trouble because of the lying.
To be sure, the Southern Baptist resolution is a major embarrassment to to Channel One and remains so today. It happened in Atlanta, GA in June, 1999. Channel One has an office in Atlanta and their majorSouthern lobbyist firm is located in Duluth, GA, just outside Atlanta.10,000 messengers to the Conference voted on Resolution 8 opposingChannel One’s “assault” on kids. Reporters on the floor saw no visible support for this controversial company. The Channel One employees in Atlanta could do nothing to stop the landslide vote opposing their company.
If anyone in your school district says that this resolution is no longer valid or in anyway diminished, please challenge the person speaking.They are merely repeating a lie that Channel One thinks it can getaway with.
Channel One News, under the aggressive and bizarre management style of Jim Ritts, has gotten worse since the time of the Southern Baptist resolution. Channel One has promoted some of its most vile movies sinceJune 1999. They temporarily stopped promoting PG13 movies to middle school students but then came up with the “guest host ploy.” Technically,Channel One still does not run commercials for PG13 movies to middle school students, but they allow an actor from the PG13 movie to guest host the news show for middle school students and the movie is plugged by the actor as the anchor asks, “What have you been doing lately?” “Oh,my movie (PG13) comes out this Friday. It’s called (fill in the blank). Please, please go see this movie.” The anchor then says, “Oh yes, we all need to see this movie this weekend. So long for ChannelOne.”
Don’t let Channel One’s “goon squad” distort the truth.The truth is so easy to confirm on the web.
Obligation’s Jim Metrock said, “I continue to be appalled and sadden at the deception of Channel One. They have a lot of money on the line and everybody is worried about their jobs. But that does not justify lying to parents and other members of the public. In all my years of business, I have never seen a corporation misstate facts so frequently. I feel sorry for these folks. I hope they are put out of their misery soon.”
