From Jim Metrock: gURL.com is an extremely controversial website that contains explicit sexual content aimed at girls. This site’s target audience is not young women, but, as it’s name implies, girls – teen girls, tween girls, and preteen girls. gURL is owned by Alloy Media and Marketing as is Channel One News. Channel One...
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On February 15, 2012 Channel One News used their crack team of “journalists” to show off school tee shirts. This one 30-second bit of nonsense cost students and taxpayers dearly. Channel One says they have “nearly 5.5 million” students. (They once claimed a captive audience of 8.1 million.) If half of their claimed audience...
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From Jim Metrock: This is a short clip from the video Schools for Sale. I have always been fascinated with this video from Fargo, ND since 1997 when I first saw it. The principal Ed Raymond was very willing to suspend students for THREE DAYS if they did not go to the classroom...
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In 1995 the Walt Whitman Center in association with Pacific Street Films produced this video to help parents and educators remove Channel One News from their schools. They hired the comedian Lewis Black to play the role of Jerry Adman. The film has been broken into two parts. Part ONE of Schools for...
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From Jim Metrock: Below is the front page of the “news” site called Channelone.com. This is what Channel One executives do when a movie studio waves some cash under their noses. They go crazy. The movie studio wanted Channel One News to get children into the theater for this PG-13 movie, so Channel One...
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From Obligation’s Jim Metrock: Alloy’s Matt Diamond loves to push the envelope with teens and preteens. Teen sex and teen drinking are frequently normalized and glamorized in the content he churns out. Evidently some teens and younger children love his stuff. Consequences? For kids? Well, that’s not a big concern evidently for the...
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Above is a screen shot of today’s Channelone.com. A commercial that was shown on the in-school Channel One News is playing advertising a new Nickelodeon TV series called How To Rock. To the right and throughout the hyper-commercial website is an ad for the show. Teachers and principals are allowing this complete waste of...
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Channel One executives once again make a joke of their “news” show by selling a whole “non-commercial” segment of their program to the Cartoon Network to promote their new TV show called Level Up. Selling their Pop Quiz to advertisers is nothing new for Channel One. This is a deceptive practice because the ad...
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