Cliff Notes For Your Child’s Cell Phone?

October 23, 2009

Ad from the Channel One News website.

Channel One News continues to promote Cliff Notes to students. Now they are urging young people to download the Cliff Notes iPhone application.

Everything advertised on the Channel One News TV show and on Channelone.com is implicitly endorsed by the schools that have a contract with Channel One. Children only know about Channel One News because schools require them to watch the TV show. It seems wrong for a school to be plugging Cliff Notes, but then again a school that still wastes school time showing the controversial Channel One News show doesn’t have a clear sense of their purpose.