From the archives: Changing the Channel (New Republic 1999)

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• We’re coming back to write the last chapter on Channel One News.
• Pat Ellis: Pornography in Alabama schools and youth organizations? You be the judge
• An awful website gets buried.
• Tom Hanson
• Where did Channel One News people go?
• Three villains
• Channel One News converted learning time into marketing time. New video series will explain how it ended.
• Who are these people??
• The 8 schools that have signed up for OurCampus.
• OurCampus’s outrageous Terms and Conditions.
• It’s alive!!! Skoollive dies, OurCampus comes to life.
• It is official: NexxGen News is currently not operating.
• Edmodo’s NexxGen News stumbles into 2020
• Skoollive is positively gone.
• Tones [sic] of problems for NexxGen News.
• Let’s get NexxGen News up to 10 likes.
• Edmodo’s sponsored content brings controversy.
• How could Edmodo make these mistakes? (2018 EdSurge article)
• No video from NexxGen News since June 10
• Introducing NexxGen News or Channel One News 2.0 (2 point Oh No)
• Edmodo privacy policy
• Skoollive is skooldead.
• Keith Kocinski lands on his feet… sorta.
• Who’s going to pick up this trash?
• Brutal ad on Channel One News: If You Wear Glasses, You’re Ugly. (Sept 2003)
• Why Channel One News was removed from schools: Channel One Uses Soldiers For Self-Promotion (April 2003)
• Secrets about Channel One News: They advertised racy TV shows to students.
• Channel One News made students perform like circus animals.
• Why Channel One News was removed from schools: Houston Chronicle Editorial (2002)
• Bobbie Patray had a lot to do with the demise of Channel One News.
• 2000 GAO Study on Commercialism focuses on problems with Channel One News
• Why Channel One News was removed from schools: Images of ISIS execution dumped into classrooms. (Aug 2014)
• Why Channel One News was removed from schools: Channel One Wants Personal Information From Children (June 2000)
• Why Channel One News was removed from schools: WHO Mentions Channel One’s Role In Obesity Crisis (Jan. 2003)
• Why Channel One News was removed from schools: Channel One Paid Lobbying Firm $820,000 (Oct. 1999)
• Why Channel One News was removed from schools: If You Wear Glasses, You’re Ugly. (2006)
• Why Channel One News was removed from schools (Oct. 2001): Sleazy MTV
• Channel One News Hall of Shame (Jan 1999): “Millennium Minute” To “Creatively Integrate Your Brand” With the News
• Here’s a wonderful sight.
• Channel One News Bad Guy: Congressman Bradley Byrne (R) AL
• Skoollive still struggling for a reason to exist.
• Gaze on this to understand how bad Channel One News was.
• Two reasons Channel One News is gone.
• A look back at Channel One’s “Bad Guys”: Ralph Reed
• Why Channel One is out of classrooms: Channel One’s lobbying thugs. (2006)
• A look back at the Channel One “Bad Guys”: Kent Haehl and Dr. Paul Folkemer
• Advocates for commercial-free schools cheer as Channel One signs off
• Broadcasting and Cable: Channel One Going Dark
• Heartless statement from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on ending Channel One News.
• Channel One’s mysterious executive producer surfaces to announce the death of Channel One.
• Mission Accomplished: Channel One News dies.
• Channel One News ends.
• Fool your friends: Skoollive Student Influencer Application
• Channel One on air personalities: Who’s coming back for 2018-19?
• A look back – 2006: “The Company is in the process of assessing the business.”
• Junk food ads on Channel One News 1997-2002
• Buh-Bye, Channel One.
• Northeastern High School (OH) goes gaga over Channel One.
• Channel One News ripping off CBS News? Remember when Ch1 promoted Red Bull to kids?
• Livingston Parish Schools still show Channel One.
• Bill Nye, the Thoughtless Guy
• Channel One News is out of Rome, GA.
• You can’t make this stuff up: Skoollive brings Dairy Queen ads into schools.
• SkoolLive marketing draws down on the youngest of schoolchildren.
• Let’s try this again. Repackaged SkoolLive wants to be known as “The Voice of Generation Z.”
• How big is a SkoolLive ad? Yuge!
• Grand County (UT) school uses taxpayer money to film Channel One promo film
• SkoolLive is “reimagining itself” for the X time.
• SkoolLive’s new public face as of March 1, 2018 10:02 CDT
• Channel One News devotes 1/2 of show to promoting Marvel movie.
• Arizona NPR reports on SkoolLive
• SkoolLive gets attention in Arizona.
• Demopolis Middle gets a “C” on report card, but has time to watch Channel One
• The infamous Channel One News Sales Video (1997)
• Somerset (PA) students perform for Channel One.
• A Kipp elementary school in New Orleans does a bad thing.
• Marsh Creek Sixth Grade takes time from science to film promo film for Channel One.
• Derby Middle School takes time out to do a promotional spot for a school vendor.
• Why aren’t Waynesfield-Goshen Middle School students paid for creating this commercial?
• VIDEO: Age-inappropriate content on Channel One News.
• VIDEO: Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom
• Mississippi school out foxes Channel One News marketers.
• How Channel One News mixed news with advertising: A Story Influenced By An Advertiser (2006)
• Ohio students light fires in classroom in order to get on Channel One News.
• Channel One News recklessly shows students eating laundry detergent pods
• Young people are uninterested in online Channel One News.
• Boone County (KY) schools still forcing students to watch commercials
• The laziest young people in front of a camera.
• A look back at 2017: Disgusting – Channel One News tells children Colin Kaepernick is like Rosa Parks
• Images
• North Vermilion Middle School (LA) wastes school time with Channel One.
• Houghton Mifflin and Channel One News play rough with kids.
• Cleveland (TN) City Schools sell out their students AGAIN.
• Channel One’s parent company Houghton Mifflin sets 52-week low
• Houghton Mifflin having fun with elementary school students.
• Serial killer joke for elementary school kids? Channel One messes up again.
• Channel One News shows middle school students horrific NYC terror images
• Great resource for schools considering removing Channel One
• Advocates Urge Channel One to Stop Advertising Junk Food in Classrooms
• Taxpayers fund promotion for teen horror show on Channel One News