From Obligation’s Jim Metrock: Alloy’s Matt Diamond loves to push the envelope with teens and preteens. Teen sex and teen drinking are frequently normalized and glamorized in the content he churns out. Evidently some teens and younger children love his stuff. Consequences? For kids? Well, that’s not a big concern evidently for the...
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Above is a screen shot of today’s Channelone.com. A commercial that was shown on the in-school Channel One News is playing advertising a new Nickelodeon TV series called How To Rock. To the right and throughout the hyper-commercial website is an ad for the show. Teachers and principals are allowing this complete waste of...
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Channel One executives once again make a joke of their “news” show by selling a whole “non-commercial” segment of their program to the Cartoon Network to promote their new TV show called Level Up. Selling their Pop Quiz to advertisers is nothing new for Channel One. This is a deceptive practice because the ad...
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No, they really do. Archbishop Chapelle HS Bourgeois HS Cope MS Downsville HS Eunice JHS Hanson Memorial HS Lutcher HS St. Paul’s School Vidalia JHS Welsh SJ MS Youree Drive MS Zwolle HS
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No, they really do. Avon MS North Boston MS Brown Intermediate Center Brownstown Central Middle School Carroll MS Central Noble HS Covington HS Custer Baker Intermediate DeKalb MS Doe Creek MS Driver MS Grimmer MS Jasper MS Justice Intermediate School Kesling MS Kouts MS & HS Maple Ridge Elementary New Prairie MS Noblesville...
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We have a winner! Four Wastin’ School Time and Tax Dollars awards will be given out each school year by Obligation. The first winner is Lardner Middle School in the Niles Community School District in Niles, Michigan. Lardner beat out several other schools. Other schools nominated for the first award were: Avon Middle School...
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When Channel One News wants to sell a young person something (which is the main reason the company exists), they don’t fool around. For weeks Channel One has been pounding students in their classrooms and visitors to their website (channelone.com) with ads for the Samsung Focus smart phone. Above one sees a Samsung...
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From Jim Metrock: We have redesigned Obligation.org to make it easier to find articles, videos and PDFs. This time of year is when schools begin talking about ending their contracts with Channel One. School boards often vote in the spring time to remove the program over the upcoming summer months. Making our website more...
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From Jim Metrock: Here’s another nominee for our Wastin’ Time and Tax Dollars award: Castle Dome Middle School in Yuma, AZ. Not only does the school spend valuable time watch Channel One with its ads for rock bands and movies, but the principal, Lori A. Sheffield, allowed students to take up time to...
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