This video is from years ago (1997).
It was the first drug story Obligation was able to tape from the Channel One TV show. Whenever we showed this to parents at PTA and PTO meetings the response was the same: outrage. Since that time, Channel One News has aired dozens of PSAs, news stories, and feature stories that helped normalize drug use among teens and preteens.
This video underscores an unnerving fact about Channel One: No one but Channel One controls the content of their show. Schools have no say-so. Communities give up their rights to control ONE HOUR a week of what their schoolchildren will be taught. That’s one reason why so many schools no longer or never had this controversial, in-school TV program.
