From Jim Metrock:
This morning, May 5, I made this copy of Channelone.com’s home page. There is no news except for a few headlines racing across the screen on a blue background.
Everything else is filler. "Play of the Week" is filler. "Project Prom" is filler. There are two contests which are promoting movies advertised in the classroom.
Take a look at the "breaking news" headlines: "OLYMPICS: Torch Welcomed in Hong Kong" "RACES: Your Ky. Derby Guide."
The lazy employees of Channel One News have had those same headlines running across their site since Friday morning, May 2. There were no newer headlines or articles added after these on May 2.
If a young person clicked on the "RACE" story, he or she would read the article at the bottom.
In the real world, Big Brown won the Derby on SATURDAY. Eight Belles was tragically put to death on SATURDAY – two days ago! Yet Channel One News was still providing kids with a "guide" to the "upcoming Kentucky Derby." All the other news stories were equally as old and stale. The Olympics story from Hong Kong was from Friday morning.
What is significant about Friday Morning? That’s easy. Channel One’s TV show is taped a day ahead. So Friday’s show was in the can the day before. Nobody at Channel One has to show up for work on Friday. The weekend starts early for the news hounds at Channel One. The last person out the door around 2 am Friday morning, probably cut and pasted a few May 2 wire stories onto the Channelone.com web site and turned off the lights. Nobody thought about the website until midday today – Monday, May 5.
Channel One News doesn’t care about informing young people. Examples like this show how lazy and sloppy they are. The company has earned their tarnished reputation.
Channel One came close to going out of business last year. The company is considered a joke by many educators. Schools administrators wipe their shoes on Channel One’s contract. Schools openly defy Channel One. They don’t show the program and they are not going to hand over their TV sets. The company is in a terrible situation. You would think this would make Channel One executives and other employees work HARDER. Instead, they appear to be a totally demoralized group who care more about their free time than their work time. And it shows in their work product.
Are we beginning to see why Channel One has lost 2,000,000 out of its 8,000,000 students since 2002?
