The
official web site for Channel One News has a new, shocking advertiser.
The name of the advertiser is Ringingphone.com.
This company is paying Channel One News so they can have access
to the children that visit channelone.com.
(The in-school TV show, Channel One News, repeatedly urges students
to visit Channel One’s site.)
On the home page of Channelone.com
and on numerous other pages, children see the banner ad for Ringingphone.com.
RIngingphone.com sells ring tones for cell phones and wallpaper
for cell phone screens. Children use these tones and images to
customize their phones.
Ringingphone.com offers pornographic wallpaper or images to its customers.
There are no safeguards to keep children from viewing their mature offerings
and from buying them. They ask if a customer is over 13 but that is about
it. (Young people pay $4.99 a month for the use of a ring tone and use
of the image on their cell phone screen.)
There are other unsavory aspects
of this Channel One advertiser. They also offer online games that
young people can pay to enter so they can win cash and prizes.
Obligation’s Jim Metrock said, "This
is outrageous. Advertising this sleaze to children should be reason
enough for any school that still is saddled with Channel One News
to end their contract. The more children who visit Ringingphone.com
from the Channel One News site adds to Channel One’s revenue. Can
you imagine a parent or a principal seeing one of these images
on a child’s cellphone. People who put this stuff in front of kids
for their own profit are one of the lowest forms of life on our
planet."
Here is a sample of some of
the wallpaper images children can peruse and buy.
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Image Removed Wasn’t there anyone at Channel One that |
Image Removed Channel One’s advertiser is contributing |
"Beer. It’s your friend." Yuk, yuk, Channel One. |
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Image Removed Channel One’s CEO Jim Ritts had to sign |
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Image Removed Could you imagine your child having this |
Image Removed Parent: How did you get this on your cell Child: It’s OK, Mom. I got it through |
Image Removed Channel One’s advertiser also has a selection |
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Channel One, isn’t this sending the wrong |
All of these images came from ringingphone.com http://www.ringingphone.com/InfoRGSWallpapersMain.aspx?ID=221
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Note: Channel One News rotates
advertisers on their web site. If you go to Channelone.com you
might not see the Ringingphone.com ad, but it will pop be there
the next time you visit their site.
Channel One News routinely removes
offensive content from their official web site once Obligation
draws public attention to it. Very possibly, Channel One News will
post some warning to children about the content at Ringingphone.com
(there is none now) or they may remove the ads (let’s hope). What
they can’t change is their reckless disregard for other people’s
children.
What in the world will Channel
One News dump on kids next?
