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Posts Tagged ‘ Message Board ’

The Pleasures Of Self-Mutilation Brought To You By Channel One

March 30, 2004

Channel One reviewed the following messages and approved them for posting to their Community message boards for kids. Somebody at Channel One News evidently believes there are two sides to the self-mutilation issue. Of course, there are some postings that say cutting yourself is an awful thing to do, but the point here is why is Channel One giving “cutters”...
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More Gay and Lesbian Discussions at ChannelOne.com

February 21, 2004

Go to Channel One’s website for children and sign up as a member (at the top of the home page), Then click on “Community” and be ready to be shocked. You will see a new warning about what children are not suppose to post on the site. This was added in response to Obligation’s articles about the graphic sexual content...
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How Many Seconds?

February 3, 2004

This is from the Channel One News script from yesterday. Look at your watch and speak out loud the lines below. It will take X number of seconds. Multiple those seconds by 4,000,000 (our estimate of Channel One’s audience). Figure out the number of minutes and hours and your jaw will drop. Just imagine if 8 million students lost...
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Vulgar Message Boards For Kids

February 3, 2004

From Jim Metrock: This is a sample of the sleazy message board Channel One News uses to lure kids to their web site. Channel One got in very bad trouble doing this to kids in 1998. They lost a large amount of Alabama schools that year because of the raunchy content they were delivering to children. Now it is...
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“Channel One” Schools Urged To Warn Parents About Internet Chat Rooms

October 9, 1997

Press Release October 9, 1997 Contact: Jim Metrock 205-822-0080 “Channel One” Schools Urged To Warn Parents About Internet Chat Rooms “>(Birmingham, AL) Channel One, a controversial in-school TV show, is urging children to visit its Internet web site and its chat room and parents should be warned, says a local child advocacy group. Jim Metrock, president of Obligation, Inc., said,...
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