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Complete, unedited Channel One News for January 22, 2002

August 24, 2012
Complete, unedited Channel One News for January 22, 2002

Why Channel One News is so controversial? Watch these video clips: https://obligation.org/video-from-channel-one-news    
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Channel One News Hall of Shame: Making a music video of horrific 9/11 images (2001)

August 10, 2012
Channel One News Hall of Shame: Making a music video of horrific 9/11 images (2001)

The article below was originally published on October 19, 2001. ____________________________________________________________ Channel One’s Insensitive Recap of 9/11 For Sixth Graders Above, children see the first Trade Tower after the plane hit. From Jim Metrock: On September 18, one week after the terrible attack...
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Complete, unedited Channel One News for December 22, 2003

August 10, 2012
Complete, unedited Channel One News for December 22, 2003

 
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Complete, unedited Channel One News for November 1, 2004

June 28, 2012
Complete, unedited Channel One News for November 1, 2004

Channel One News prevents parents and the public from seeing what is advertised to students by removing commercials from their web rebroadcast. This is an outrageous practice that indicates how uncomfortable Channel One is with their advertising. This video is the complete Channel One program. It has not been edited by Channel One to...
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Complete, unedited Channel One News for October 1, 2002

March 30, 2012
Complete, unedited Channel One News for October 1, 2002

Channel One News: You’re a loser if you wear glasses. (Acuvue contact lens commercials)      
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Channel One’s Columbine Joke

April 27, 2004
Channel One’s Columbine Joke

It is difficult to imagine a company that makes more bad decisions than Channel One News. On April 21, Channel One did something that many have urged them not to do. They ran a story about the anniversary of the Columbine shootings. Was it absolutely necessary to put the Columbine tragedy into schoolchildren’s faces AGAIN? The producer of that...
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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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Welcome Aboard the Titanic, Ms. Jiggetts

July 4, 2003

Robert Feder of the Chicago Sun-Times reports: “Another Jiggetts is breaking into broadcasting: Lauren Jiggetts, the 21-year-old daughter of Chicago sportscaster Dan Jiggetts (and a recent sociology graduate of Harvard University), has been hired as a news anchor and reporter for Channel One, the educational news channel seen in classrooms nationwide. She’ll be based in Los Angeles.” ______ It appears...
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Channel One Shows Promotional Clips Of Violent PG13 Movie To Middle School Students

June 12, 2003

From Jim Metrock: Any independent observer of Channel One News over the last two years would be perplexed at some of the absolutely idiotic decisions made by their programming VP, Morgan Wandell. By definition if you work for Channel One News you are a “lightweight.” Important people work elsewhere. It was Wandell that told his news anchors...
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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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