From Jim Metrock: It’s August 28, 2016. I checked Skoollive’s Facebook page. The latest post is dated May 17. (I’m assuming that is this year.) When it comes to its Twitter feed, the company is doing only slightly better. The most current tweet is May 27. It looks like the latest effort to...
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A: “No” From Jim Metrock: Channel One News isn’t inspiring many students. This post was put up on December 8. Today is December 11 – three days later. Channel One claims over 100,000 “likes” on Facebook, yet only three people have commented. I am sure more will comment in the coming days, but I doubt Channel One will attract...
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From Jim Metrock: This post is from Channel One’s Facebook page. I viewed their FB page today (November 21,2014) and worked my way back in time. I wanted to see the highest number of responses any one post received. Channel One is still claiming “nearly 5 million” in its audience. So one would think...
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July 8, 2013 – Channelone.com “breaking news” article. From Jim Metrock: For months Channel One News would post AP news stories without attribution. They made other people’s content appear to be their own. It was dumb for them to do that because they knew they would caught. Above is an AP story on Channelone.com today...
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Channel One’s Ariel Glickman isn’t sure lying is wrong. Wha From Jim Metrock: A Channel One summer intern poses a question to young readers: Is it a big deal to lie about your age? That’s typical Channel One News: value-neutral. There is no value system at this youth marketing firm. Nothing is right...
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From Jim Metrock: How fitting. Yesterday I wrote about the Grinches at Channel One News who rob children of their academic time in school. Today I find the latest post on Channel One’s Facebook page by a student who thinks the best thing about Channel One News is wasting 15 minutes of English class....
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See what Channel One News doesn’t want you to see. What Channel One shows parents is not what students see in their classroom. Channel One does not allow the public to see two minutes of their 12-minute daily program. Channel One News removes both commercial breaks from their web rebroadcast of the show. This...
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On June 4 this was posted on Channel One’s Facebook page. The lazy, pretend journalists at Channel One News have no interest in doing their TV show during the summer or for that matter on any weekend or holiday. They could easily provide young people with an up-to-the-minute news show on their website (unlike...
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By Mitchell Toy From: Sunday Herald Sun July 18, 2010 SOCIAL media networks such as Facebook and Twitter are making teen web surfers dumber, more than half of their parents believe. But less than half believe the sites are impacting on their health and wellbeing. New cyber-safety research commissioned by Telstra reveals 65 per cent of...
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http://thestir.cafemom.com/big_kid/105790/alcohol_pushed_to_kids_on Posted by Jeanne Sager on July 2, 2010 at 11:45 AM Parents, it’s time to stop worrying about perverts on Facebook. And start worrying about the marketers. The alcohol marketers. If your child signs on to Facebook today and enters their real age — anything under 21 — there’s nothing to stop them from...
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