Two days before its release, Channel One News opens their classroom TV show with a plug for this 20th Century Fox movie. Compelling students to watch movie ads? Believe it or not, in 2012, that still makes sense to a dwindling number of school administrators in many low-achieving secondary schools.
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From October 2, 2012. Here’s a good example of why thousands of schools have dropped Channel One over the past few years. This one clip is 40 seconds long. 40 seconds X 4.8 million students is a lot of wasted time. Those seconds were paid for by taxpayers. Taxpayers have every right to ask...
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An example of how Channel One News has changed into a hyper-commercial, irrelevant mess.
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Channel One News has advertised numerous movies that were age-inappropriate due to drug and alcohol content and sexual content. One of the worst was the “stoner comedy” Dude, Where’s My Car? in December, 2000 and January 2001. The entire movie was one big drug joke which normalized the use of marijuana among young people....
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Dude, Where’s My Car? (PG13 Drug content, profanity, sexual content) 20th Century Fox recently made the decision to move up their distribution of their “pothead” movie “Dude, Where’s My Car?” from spring 2001 to December 15. They had to act quickly to market this drug movie to teens and...
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