Channel One’s Guide On How To Cheat On Book Reports February 13, 1998 We were tipped off to this by a teacher in Canada. (Our friends to the north are being plagued with a Channel One clone called YNN.) Channel One published this on their official web site. It attempts to be humorous and at the same...
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How To Be Stupid – The Lessons Of Channel One May 1, 1997 From Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting Extra! May/June 1997 How to be Stupid The Lessons of Channel One By Mark Crispin Miller News, of course, is not the point of Channel One-any more than it’s the point of those commercial TV newscasts...
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Channel One Ad Promotes Most Violent Network Show March 20, 1997 Birmingham, AL – School children in several area middle schools (including all Jefferson and Shelby County system schools) were forced to watch a commercial during school for the most violent prime time series on network television. Obligation, a Birmingham-based child advocacy organization, says this is...
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From Jim Metrock: It’s sad to see young people with a real chance to be legitimate journalists sign on with the kiddie marketing firm Channel One. Check out the background for this dynamic young woman and then try to understand her decision to join Houghton Mifflin’s Channel One News. http://www.channelone.com/reporter/arielle-hixson/ Note to Ms. Hixson:...
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When Houghton Mifflin’s Channel One News plays videos from students, there is a tremendous savings for the in-classroom TV show. Every minute of student-produced content is one minute less Channel One has to create. Do other schools want to see student-made videos about their upcoming prom? Absolutely not, but Channel...
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Is the stink of Channel One causing Houghton Mifflin people to panic? December 12, 2014: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NASDAQ:HMHC) Insider Mary Johanna Cullinane unloaded 15,000 shares of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt stock on the open market in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 9th. The stock was sold at an average price of $20.18, for...
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From Jim Metrock: (February 26, 2015) This week Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMHC) announced they lost $83.7 million in their fourth quarter. For the year they lost $111.5 million. Wall Street analysts predicted HMHC to post a quarterly loss of 28 cents per share, but the loss was 59 cents. Houghton Mifflin’s purchase of Channel One...
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From Jim Metrock: This movie contest is on Channel One’s website Channelone.com. This is the site that students in high school to elementary school go to find out more information after seeing the Channel One News show in their classrooms. Channel One rarely posts the MPAA ratings...
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Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood – 2012
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From the Houghton Mifflin/ Channel One News script: Last up, at least 25 people were killed in a plane crash yesterday, crashing into a bridge in Taiwan’s capital city, Taipei. A car’s dashboard camera captured the moment the plane came careening sideways out of the sky toward traffic; the plane’s wing clipping...
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