From Jim Metrock: It was never meant to be: Channel One News and Promethean, Ltd. These two troubled companies became partners in the summer of 2011. The partnership didn’t make any sense for Promethean the maker of classroom whiteboards. It did make sense for Channel One. Teaming with a well known company like...
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From Jim Metrock: 1. On March 18, Channel One News told schoolchildren: Next up, a new study by NASA finds that civilization could be headed for a collapse in our lifetime. The study by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center looked at other empires and civilizations in history and found a pattern to...
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From Jim Metrock: Why would Channel One News tell students that civilization may be coming to an end during their lifetime? Only Ms. CJ Ketter could answer that. I have written Ms. Kettler asking her to at least correct the Channel One story as reported on March...
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From Jim Metrock: How could I have forgotten the unforgettable Jim Steyer. Of all the people I have crossed paths with in the battle against commercialism in classrooms, I rank Jim Steyer near the bottom. There is good reason to do so. The other day I wrote an article about the “education” panel session...
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From Jim Metrock: I contacted two people at the Starkville School District in Starkville, MS and found they are no longer honoring the viewing requirements of Channel One’s contract. I hope my letter to the editor in 2012 had some part to play in this. Voice of the people June 18, 2012 Channel One ...
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See the March 20 article I Made a Mistake for a correction to this March 17 article. From Jim Metrock: It is good to see Channel One’s CEO getting out and about. The public doesn’t see Ms. CJ Kettler much, and you don’t see much of her even in this Channel One picture. I’m having...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One News is a shell of its former self in part because of a history of bad decisions by their management. Here’s a big one. I came across this old email to a staffer at Senator Richard Shelby’s office. In 2004, the Senator’s office helped me get in front...
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From Jim Metrock: This surprises me. Nordstrom department store is advertising on Channel One News. I have never seen them advertise before. Nordstrom should know better than to waste valuable school time promoting their company in any way. Time to convince Blake Nordstrom, Nordstrom’s CEO, to have his ad agency drop...
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