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For the record.

May 18, 2014
For the record.

  From Jim Metrock: Since 1997, I have been writing articles about Channel One’s commercial exploitation of schoolchildren.  They are all here.  The main reason I wrote was to help educators, administrators, school board members, other parents, and young people themselves in their efforts to remove Channel One from their classrooms.  I hope my...
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From the archives: Students Recall More Ads Than News on Channel One (2006)

July 6, 2012
From the archives: Students Recall More Ads Than News on Channel One (2006)

  “The benefits of having Channel One in schools seem to have some real costs that should create an ethical dilemma for schools,” Dr. Erica Austin of Washington State University   Students Recall More Ads Than News on Channel One By Carla K. Johnson Associated Press Students remember more of the advertising than they do...
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