Eat More Twinkies, Kids. February 6, 2001 On January 26, 2001, upwards to 8 million schoolchildren were compelled to watch a commercial urging them to eat more Hostess Twinkies. Channel One has been bringing Hostess into America’s classrooms since the spring of 2000. Jim Metrock said, “When you think about it, Channel One is a...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One News has a long history of advertising junk food in American classrooms. The company knew their ads were contributing in a very significant way to the growing obesity crisis among young people, but they kept pitching the junk to kids. Obligation and others helped put pressure...
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Junk food advertising on Channel One News.
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Channel One News advertises Snickers and video games to middle school students. This type of advertising caused Channel One to lose thousands of schools.
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This is one commercial break from the May 29, 1997 Channel One News program for middle school students. For more than a decade Channel One News advertised junk food to a captive audience of schoolchildren.These back-to-back ads for Twix candy bars and Pepsi give an indication of Channel One’s reckless disregard for the...
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Answers 1. Twinkies – Yes. Channel One advertised in classrooms. 2. Twix Chocolate Bars –Yes 3. Doritos – Yes 4. M&Ms – Yes 5. Burger King French Fries – No * 6. Crunch – Yes. 7. Pepsi Blue – Yes. Channel One ran an ad featuringa band known for their explicit lyrics to promote...
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1 What was NOT recently advertised on Channel One News? answer at bottom of page Burger King french fries have not been advertised on Channel One News since the early 90’s.
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