Your guide to the Channel One gang: Jim Ritts is the latest president. Frederick Sawabini, formerly of MTV (Oh great!) is president of Sales & Marketing. Paul D. Folkemer, is Executive Vice President of Education Services. He is basically a PR man who has tried unsuccessfully for three years to create an educational facade...
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As many know, Channel One has tried to co-opt the fledgling media literacy/media education movement. A handful of media literacy experts have tried to make Channel One respectable. A new organization is forming June 22 in Austin, Texas. The Alliance for a Media Literate America is taking the place of the Partnership for Media...
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News About Channel One – 2001 January – May Kick Hollywood Out of Your School – Kick Channel One Out – Enough is Enough  The Mandatory Hollywood Curriculum: Channel One "Hollywood has a secret marketing tool. They call it Channel One News. If a school still has Channel One, that school is giving movie...
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From Jim Metrock: Regrettably, Primedia has not removed their pornography from their Internet company, About.com. Primedia, parent company to Channel One, merged with About.com at the end of February. Since then Channel One has run many commercials for About.com on their in-school TV show and run banner ads for About.com on channelone.com. I have...
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From Jim Metrock: I just sent a six page letter to U.S. Senators and Representatives. In this letter, I use graphic language to describe the sleazy and pro-drug entertainment that Channel One has advertised this school year. By clicking on the link you can read the letter, but I warn you about the content....
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May 24, 2001 Dear Representative: This is a dirty letter. I do not apologize. The person who should apologize is Jack Abramoff of Greenberg and Traurig, the Washington lobbyist for the controversial in-school marketing company called Channel One. I am just telling you what his client is doing to our children. Channel One is...
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Here is an article from the Woodward News documenting how a school board can be mislead into giving away ONE HOUR a week of their student’s school time. http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=1782517&BRD=1843&PAG=461&dept_id=220390&rfi=6 Notice how the technology director, Kyle Reynolds, explains Channel One to the board. One can hardly recognize Channel One from the gushing comments of Mr....
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The Channel One Diet        
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PRIMEDIA/About.com’s Teen Advice Site Tells Teens If They Are Ready For Sex – Channel One Heavily Advertising About.com to Schoolchildren Channel One is slowly integrating itself with its recently acquired sister company, About.com. Channel One’s parent company, PRIMEDIA, Inc., completed their merger with About.com in early March. Channel One is to advertise and pitch...
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from Channel One Evidently somebody or several people at Channel One believe deeply in astrology and they want to share this with your child. Channel One has previously promoted astrology on their web site and now they have what they call their "Astro Love Match." A child picks their sign and the sign of...
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The Coca-Cola Company last week announced changes in their marketing practices in schools. Their press release can be read at this link: http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/news/index.html Coke makes it clear that there should be no advertising in classrooms. "“The classroom is a clean zone – and we’ve always been committed to promoting a learning environment that does...
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March 14, 2001 (Birmingham, AL) Obligation, Inc., a Birmingham, AL-based child advocacy organization, called on the controversial in-school marketing company, Channel One, to stop airing any commercials for soft drinks to its captive audience of schoolchildren (ages 11-18). According to Channel One, over 8 million schoolchildren, between the ages of 11-18, are under contract...
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f MonkeyBone has just finished jumping down the front of this woman’s dress and exploring the woman’s body under her clothes. He tells her, "I left my phone number on your underwear." This is a sample of the sleaze that oozes from this sex comedy that Channel One promoted to children as young as...
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Another Filthy Movie Advertised on Channel One Protest Letter to Paul Folkemer and Noreen Clarke of Channel One Channel One Urges Kids to See Vulgar "MonkeyBone" Movie Warning: This letter contains graphic language describing content in this "Channel One-approved" Dirty Movie  This scene was shown in classrooms. Parents have no idea what utter sleaze...
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  Warning: This news release contains graphic language.   NEWS RELEASE – March 9, 2001 Contact: Jim Metrock, President Obligation, Inc. 205-612-3376   PRIMEDIA Jumps Into Hardcore Pornography   Birmingham, AL – An Alabama child advocacy and media watchdog organization has urged PRIMEDIA’s Chairman Tom Rogers to get his company out of the pornography...
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