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From the archives: 3/20/97 Channel One promotes most violent network show to students

May 19, 2015
From the archives: 3/20/97 Channel One promotes most violent network show to students

Channel One Ad Promotes Most Violent Network Show March 20, 1997     Birmingham, AL – School children in several area middle schools (including all Jefferson and Shelby County system schools) were forced to watch a commercial during school for the most violent prime time series on network television. Obligation, a Birmingham-based child advocacy organization, says this is...
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Channel One News has dished out a lot of violence to middle school kids.

December 24, 2012
Channel One News has dished out a lot of violence to middle school kids.

  Channel One News has a long, disgusting history of advertising movies and TV shows with violent content. And using violent images to even sell products like Mountain Dew and Mug Root Beer. Here is just a sampling of their recklessness. During the holidays it is a good time for all of us to...
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FTC Mentions Channel One in Historic Report on Marketing of Violent Entertainment to Children

September 11, 2000

“Target marketing to children of entertainment products with violent content is pervasive and aggressive,” FTC chairman Robert Pitofsky (September 11, 2000) You bet, Bob. Violent movies, violent television shows, violent music, violent video games. This is the world our children live in. The marketing of violent entertainment is big business, and that is certainly the case with Channel One....
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Channel One Ad Promotes Most Violent Network Show

March 20, 1997

  Birmingham, AL – School children in several area middle schools (including all Jefferson and Shelby County system schools) were forced to watch a commercial during school for the most violent prime time series on network television. Obligation, a Birmingham-based child advocacy organization, says this is yet another reason to remove the Channel One TV show from Alabama public...
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