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Poor Channel One News, they just can’t do anything right.
The latest example of incompetence is "The Summer Show." Wait ’til you hear about this one.
For years we have chastised Channel One News for not delivering more news to young people. Why NOT put news updates on their web site several times after school, at night, on the weekends, on holidays and all through the summer months? Why not stream a webcast using their reporters that would give young people timely hard news stories unlike those on the often stale, day-old taped Channel One News show piped into classrooms?
Last month, Channel One finally listened to Obligation and began to serve up a summer news program to keep kids informed over the summer. They call it "The Summer Show."
Like almost everything else about Channel One News, they chose to cut corners and do "The Summer Show" on the cheap … real cheap.
This article is being posted to the web on July 4. Any young visitor to channelone.com who wants the latest video newscast will see a "Summer Show" dated June 20. There has been only one other Summer Show newscast and that was on June 13.
Alexander Marquardt anchors the debut of "The Summer Show." He urges young people to tune in all summer long for his newscasts, but he disappeared after filming this June 13 show. Seven days would go by before the second and most current "Summer Show" newscast. It has now been 15 days since the second one. There have only been two so far this summer.
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Much to Channel One’s chagrin, Atlantis did not return to earth as scheduled. Because of bad weather in Florida, the shuttle didn’t land until June 22. Channel One’s laziness leads to these types of embarrassing situations. To C1N, it’s OK to be sloppy, it’s OK to produce only two news shows since school ended. It’s all OK because kids aren’t worth the effort. Everything about Channel One conveys this ugly message. Did Channel One News do another newscast to announce the shuttle’s real return? No, that would require extra time and money. The new owners of Channel One, Alloy Media and Marketing are even less interested in providing news to young people than the Primedia-version of C1N. |
On the June 20th Summer Show webcast, Eileen Wu tells kids about the terrible fire in Charleston, SC that claimed nine firefighters. The fire happened on June 18.
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Go to Channel One’s site and see these shows for yourself. www.channelone.com click on "Watch Today’s Show." It should be entitled: Watch Today’s News On A Show We Taped Two Weeks Ago.
