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: Back in 2006 the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance released a minority report on the Investigation of Jack Abramoff’s Use of Tax-Exempt Organizations. The report painted an ugly picture of Channel One’s efforts through “Casino” Jack Abramoff and other to misuse various tax-exempt organizations to “bash” people and organizations critical...
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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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From Jim Metrock: Channel One News has a long history of advertising junk food in American classrooms. The company knew their ads were contributing in a very significant way to the growing obesity crisis among young people, but they kept pitching the junk to kids. Obligation and others helped put pressure...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One News uses classroom time to ask students to give various pictures a funny caption. It’s a total waste of taxpayer-funded school time, but Channel One couldn’t care less. This was a recent picture. This is Maggie Rulli a reporter for the show. My caption unfortunately is more serious...
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