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It is utter nonsense to force schoolchildren, some as young as ten, to watch this minute of TV programming. The vast majority of American schools have never allowed Channel One News to be shown to students or have ended their contract with the company. Channel One’s home state of New York has outlawed...
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May 10, 2010 One of the many Channel One commercials for The Karate Kid.
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Provided by Auburn University: Leg tix location AL game 032210-1
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$100K in football tickets given BOB LOWRY Times Staff Writer Riley, legislators, other officials got AU, UA passes MONTGOMERY – The University of Alabama and Auburn University together this fall gave away more than $100,000 worth of free football tickets to elected and appointed state and federal officials. Most were elected officials – mainly...
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Lee Roessler is the latest wannabe singing star who is advertising during children’s class time. The Lee Roessler Band is paying to advertise on Channel One News. Few advertisers want anything to do with Channel One. Yet Mr. Roessler is so excited about his music being forced upon six million students that he featured...
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BOB BLALOCK: A gadfly buzzes state officials over the Iron Bowl By Bob Blalock — The Birmingham News December 20, 2009 Jim Metrock relishes the role of gadfly. It is one the Birmingham man has played before; Metrock was the gadfly in the ointment for public school systems that subscribed to Channel One. He pestered...
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May 11, 2010 A new recording act named Leiana has paid Channel One News to plug its music. Leiana’s music is heard from the first of the show to the last, at every commercial break. Allstate is using Channel One’s audience to get its brand of insurance burned into the brains of young people....
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Jon Favreau loves pitching his new movie to a captive audience of schoolchildren.
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http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/life/home_family/excess-tv-computer-video-gaming-linked-to-poor-attention-in-kids-study–97781374.html By: Sheryl Ubelacker, Health Reporter, The Canadian Press 5/07/2010 3:06 AM TORONTO – Children who spend many hours a day glued to the TV or playing computer video games may be harming their ability to concentrate and focus on tasks in school, researchers suggest. A study by psychologists at Iowa State University found that...
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Below is Milk Media/Milk Rocks’ extremely wordy privacy policy. It is filled with legal terms that would challenge some high school students. A good privacy statement for a children’s web site should consist of no more than one sentence: “We will not collect ANY information from visitors to this web site.” The more sentences...
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http://www.4visualmedia.com/
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It’s noon EDT and Channel One’s official “youth news” web site has no mention of the Times Square car bomb story. This event happened just blocks away from Channel One’s studio. Nobody is at home at Channel One News on the weekends. This makes a mockery of their claim to be the premiere source...
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How can Ms. Diaz make such an outrageous mistake of fact? And why is she allowed to talk to schoolchildren? From Jim Metrock: Channel One News is known for their sloppy, lazy treatment of the news. This company does as little as they can because there is no need to do anything well. After...
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Anthony Orsini, current principal of Benjamin Franklin Middle School. Paul D. Folkemer, former principal of Benjamin Franklin Middle School. From Jim Metrock: Anthony Orsini is the common sense, kids-come-first principal of Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, NJ. A former principal of the same school is Paul D. Folkemer who has been working on...
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Advertising to kids is unfair to begin with. Advertisers know how to manipulate kids just like they do older people. Advertising to kids becomes much worse when the ads are deceptive. When ads don’t tell young people what they are about or when they look like public service announcements or when they look like...
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This shows the kiddie marketers for what they are. Twitter will help this company generate revenue for their advertisers, but will do nothing to promote the consumption of milk. Milk Rocks is a Trojan Horse. Schools let these shameless kiddie marketers onto their school grounds because Milk Rocks boasts it is all about promoting...
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The title of this article is a fairly representative sentence from a new book being advertised to teens, preteens, and elementary-age children by Channel One News. The book is called “Will Grayson, Will Grayson.” It’s about two boys with the same name. They meet each other in a porn shop. This is a gay...
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