From Jim Metrock: If you find it hard to believe a kiddie marketing company like Channel One is still in business, this 2006 video from the Media Education Foundation may help you understand why American classrooms attract the likes of Houghton Mifflin’s Channel One.
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From Jim Metrock: I’ve seen students film themselves doing a lot of silly things just for a chance to be seen on Channel One News. You see, Channel One is constantly asking students and teachers to send in classroom videos that can be used to kick off their daily show. Channel One requires students...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One News is pushing the envelope again. Today they shocked classrooms across the country with a story on young people eating laundry detergent pods. Teachers were given no warning about the nature of today’s show. They were not warned that Channel One, for some idiotic reason, decided to show students...
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From Jim Metrock: I’ve shown examples of this before. Channel One itself proves it has an increasingly small audience. Take this Caption Contest post from Channel One’s FaceBook page. For some reason, Channel One thinks students like this type of immature content. The picture was posted on January 8 and as of January 16,...
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From Jim Metrock: Here’s another school district that not only continues to show the controversial Channel One News TV show but allows their students to do a promotional video for the struggling kiddie marketing firm. Hey, Mr. Nichols, 6th-grade science teacher, turn off the TV set and give your students ONE EXTRA HOUR of...
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Houghton Mifflin’s most controversial employees have to be the on-air personalities at their troubled company Channel One News. Here you see them, on December 20, waving “bye-bye” to schoolchildren who are forced to watch their TV show. They will not give the news to kids until Wednesday, January 3, 2018! That means for 14...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One News wants American school kids to equate Colin Kaepernick with the civil rights icon Rosa Parks. The producer at Channel One wrote this script with a clear bias in favor of the unemployed, National Anthem-protesting athlete. Channel One chose to include a line that unnamed “fans” compared the millionaire...
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From Jim Metrock: The big star this week on Channel One News was Maggie Rulli. Maggie Rulli!? Didn’t she quit Channel One News over a year ago? This is how Channel One works: if a news subject is somewhat timely, and Channel One has some old videos on that subject, they will simply replay...
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Channel One News demeans Civil Rights icon, tells students Kaepernick may be a modern day Rosa Parks. Kids told multi-millionaire Kaepernick is a helpless victim of corporations. Chilling transformation underway at Channel One News: More slanted news, more editorializing. From Jim Metrock: Channel One’s lovefest for Colin Kaepernick is disgusting. This follows Channel One’s bizarre...
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