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Channel One News Hall of Shame: Lobbyists struggle to buy praise (2006)

August 21, 2011
Channel One News Hall of Shame: Lobbyists struggle to buy praise  (2006)

“Metrock bashing”   Report Uncovers Channel One’s Sleazy Tactics October 15, 2006 MINORITY STAFF REPORT INVESTIGATION OF JACK ABRAMOFF’S USE OF TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS PREPARED BY THE MINORITY STAFF OF THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE UNITED STATES SENATE CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Chairman MAX BAUCUS, Ranking Member OCTOBER  2006 COMMITTEE ON FINANCE CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Iowa, Chairman ORRIN...
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From the archives: Changing the Channel (New Republic 1999)

May 22, 2011
From the archives: Changing the Channel (New Republic 1999)

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“They Don’t Wanna **** Wit Me”*

January 5, 2005
“They Don’t Wanna **** Wit Me”*

* Song title from Missy Elliott. Missy Elliott is a rap singer whose lyrics are filled with violence, graphic sex and an incredible amount of drug references. Her musical world is an ugly, raunchy, doped up world. This week Channel One News is promoting Ms. Elliott’s latest endeavor – a TV show on UPN. Channel One is helping...
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Adult Sex Comedy Advertised On Channel One News

March 3, 2004

From Jim Metrock: I have already written about the Channel One-advertised 50 First Dates, but today I saw it for myself. This movie is just filth. I see why it was originally rated R. The thugs at Channel One News ought to be utterly ashamed of themselves. Any adult that encourages children to see this vulgarity is a...
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Channel One News Signs Up Hershey As Sponsor

March 31, 2003

It’s a public relations nightmare, but when you are hurting for advertisers, you sign up any company you can. Channel One News has always been a major conduit for junk food peddlers to get their messages to children, but their newest advertiser is a slap in the face to school boards. With all the reports of rising childhood...
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Channel One Fat Cats Make Big Money Pushing Sleaze On Kids

August 22, 2002

Channel One won’t be cranking up their movie ads until September or October of this current school year. Right now, Channel One is running public service announcements because not all schools are in session yet. Here is the last Channel One movie ad from May of this year. It is a typical filthy movie that has made Channel...
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Channel One Brings Back Marketing PG13 Movies To Middle Schools

August 8, 2002

Well, it didn’t last long. In 2000, Channel One was shamed into stopping the practice of advertising PG-13 movies in middle schools. Channel One’s lobbyists went into overdrive getting the message out that Channel One was being sensitive to their middle school audience. A little background; Although to a classroom teacher, Channel One News looks like a seamless...
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Channel One Flirts With R-Rating – “Just This Side Of An R-Rating”

February 18, 2002

For years, Channel One reviewed R-rated movies for children on their web site. They would encourage children to write their own reviews of violent and raunchy movies like “How To Be A Player” and “Kiss The Girls.” That ended because of pressure from Obligation, but now their is an alarming new trend on the in-school Channel One News....
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Middle School Students Told To See New Warner Brothers Movie

January 10, 2002

Channel One is at it again. On January 9, they advertised an upcoming movie starring Mandy Moore, a singer that has been advertised on C1 before. Moore is making the circuit promoting the film. She will be on MTV on January 17 to push the film.  Ms. Moore was a former host on MTV in 2000. The...
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Drugs, Sex, and Channel One News

January 14, 2001
Drugs, Sex, and Channel One News

January 14, 2001 – Drugs, Sex, and Channel One News   Drugs, Sex and Channel One News Check out the latest outrage from Channel One. A “funny” movie about two “pot-heads” who get so “stoned” that they don’t know what girl they had sex with, what strip bar they went to, what they did with a transvestite the...
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