Posts Tagged ‘ channel one news ’
Channel One starts out dirty.
This sleazy movie gets prominent exposure at the top of Channel One News’ home page. Channel One News is encouraging kids to see the filthy, hard-PG13 movie Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. Once again, freelance writer and Channel One movie “reviewer” Christa Fletcher is talking straight to middle schoolers as if she is their...
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Deconstructing Channel One News – February 23, 2010
Since 2003 Channel One News has had a net loss of 1/3 of its schools. (They had “over 12,000” in 2003; 8,000 in 2010.) The better secondary schools in the U.S. just don’t have time to show their students targeted commercials. This video clip is from the second commercial break in the...
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Christa Fletcher is talking to your kids, and that’s not a good thing.
From 1998. From Jim Metrock: You read right. Before Obligation made them stop this practice in 1999, the kiddie marketers at Channel One News were reviewing and promoting R-rated movies on their official kids’ website. Channel One’s “disclaimer pertaining to media reviewed on the site (channelone.com)” Many of the movies they reviewed for children...
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Deconstructing Channel One News – segment from May 26, 2009 program
From Jim Metrock: This is one continuous clip from Channel One News interrupted only by my comments. It is incredible that public schools are urging schoolchildren to watch MTV.
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MuffinMilk? Four minutes of taxpayer-funded school time wasted.
From Jim Metrock: Channel One News is controversial for many reasons. One is the fact that the program doesn’t cover much news. The main purpose of the program is to get advertising in front of a captive audience of students. Covering lots of news stories is expensive. So Channel One News doesn’t...
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Channel One: When Private Interests and the Public Interest Collide
You can read this abstract or pay a fee to download the entire article, but the important point is the same one made by educational researchers since the creation of Channel One News: a school that has a contract with Channel One crosses a line that should not be crossed. http://aer.sagepub.com/content/45/2/343.abstract Abstract If the...
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“if they weren’t so biased.”
From Jim Metrock: Make what you will of this. Most teachers, unfortunately, are not like this one, and don’t have the time to analyze the different biases of Channel One News. http://www.evolutionnews.org/
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Pop Quiz
What a waste of taxpayer money. Do students need a pop quiz on Muddy Waters (great artist that he was) from Joe Bonamassa (over-rated artist that he is)? The answer is a resounding “No.” This is filler material that Channel One News uses to pad its program. Bonamassa has signed on with Channel One...
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Why Schools Are Dropping Channel One.
This clip picks up after two brief headlines that take a minute each Channel One’s Shelby Holliday gives a “teaser” for a NASCAR story after the commercial break. Ms. Holliday knows there is no need for a “teaser” since schools are contractually required to show the controversial Channel One News program to the captive...
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