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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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Who Is Lawrence Kaplan?

February 6, 2001

For over ten years, Channel One has used TV sets as bait to get schools to sign their contracts. Those days are gone. Television sets aren’t good bait anymore. With tougher curriculums and all-important “exit exams”, few schools have the luxury of wasting time with Channel One’s TV show. TV sets are so cheap...
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Channel One Pushes Drug Movie On Children

December 23, 2000
Channel One Pushes Drug Movie On Children

                Dude, Where’s My Car? (PG13 Drug content, profanity, sexual content)   20th Century Fox recently made the decision to move up their distribution of their “pothead” movie “Dude, Where’s My Car?” from spring 2001 to December 15. They had to act quickly to market this drug movie to teens and...
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Channel One Continues to Promote Eddie Murphy’s Dirty Movie

November 1, 2000

Months after Channel One urged children to see the premiere of the gross-out PG13 movie The Nutty Professor – The Klumps, the Channel One web site is still promoting the film. Channel One encouraged children to enter a contest to win Eddie Murphy prizes. The children had to write about a teacher and why they were crazy – or...
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Channel One Wants Personal Information From Children

June 16, 2000
Channel One Wants Personal Information From Children

Channel One wants to know about your child. Obligation has stopped them before but now they are back pushing the envelope. To get information from children the common practice among marketing firms like Channel One is to stage a contest. Dangle something children want in front of them and then tell them that you have to supply personal information in...
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West Palm Beach School Shooting

May 27, 2000

May 26, 2000 To: Paul Folkemer, Jim Ritts, Jeff Ballabon, Tom Rogers, and Roger Wolfson Today there is yet another incident of violence in our public schools (West Palm Beach). I have called on you before to end the promotion of violent entertainment to America’s schoolchildren and I have heard absolutely nothing. Do you think marketing violence is a...
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The Ghost of Chris Whittle Returns

March 1, 2000
The Ghost of Chris Whittle Returns

WIDTH=”254″ HEIGHT=”190″ ALIGN=”LEFT” BORDER=”0″ NATURALSIZEFLAG=”0″> SIZE=”+1″ FACE=”Arial”>March 1, 2000 – Channel One Returns to Whittle Days in Stunning Announcement Channel One has been without a permanent president for over six months. Today they announced the hiring of Jim Ritts as Channel One’s new president. There is nothing “new” about Ritts. He was one of the co-founders of Channel...
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