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“The Academy Award For Most Moronic Pretend News Show Goes To… Channel One!”

March 25, 2002
“The Academy Award For Most Moronic Pretend News Show Goes To… Channel One!”

The Oscars returned to Hollywood last night for the first time since 1960. Lucky for school kids, Channel One’s studio is in Hollywood so it was easy for them to cover this important current event. Below is part of today’s transcript. (KRYSTAL ON CAM) IT WAS AN EXCITING NIGHT IN HOLLYWOOD BECAUSE...
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Channel One Flirts With R-Rating – “Just This Side Of An R-Rating”

February 18, 2002

For years, Channel One reviewed R-rated movies for children on their web site. They would encourage children to write their own reviews of violent and raunchy movies like “How To Be A Player” and “Kiss The Girls.” That ended because of pressure from Obligation, but now their is an alarming new trend on the in-school Channel One News....
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Fox and Channel One Promote “Malcolm” To Kids As Young As Ten

February 4, 2002

On January 31 and February 1 (and possibly on other dates) Channel One ran commercials for “3-D Ruffle” potato chips. It looked like just another junk food ad that has made Channel One despised by pediatricians and parents. But two products were being advertised not one. Along with junk food, junk TV was being promoted. One of the...
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C1: “Is Cheating Bad Or Good?”

January 23, 2002

Anyone who has followed Channel One knows it is a “value neutral” enterprise. There are no absolutes to the executives that run C1. A young person has the right to think any way they want on any issue – including cheating. Today’s article on the web site is entitled: “The Cheat Sheet – More and more students...
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Baking Cookies

January 14, 2002

Channel One execs are in the kitchen and they are whipping up a batch of strange cookies to force down the throats of unsuspecting children. Sounds gruesome, but it all in a regular day of work at Channel One. Channel One is baking “cookies” for our children. Not the kind you eat, rather the kind that...
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Middle School Students Told To See New Warner Brothers Movie

January 10, 2002

Channel One is at it again. On January 9, they advertised an upcoming movie starring Mandy Moore, a singer that has been advertised on C1 before. Moore is making the circuit promoting the film. She will be on MTV on January 17 to push the film.  Ms. Moore was a former host on MTV in 2000. The...
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Hard News? C1 Devotes Huge Part Of Program To Nebraska vs. Miami Rose Bowl Coverage

January 4, 2002

Below is a portion of today’s Channel One News script. You can read the full script at channeloneteacher.com. Channel One spends so much time on “filler” that there is little time for substance. It has been this way since its inception. Few parents understand the waste of time that goes on when Channel One’s TV show is blaring away in...
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Channel One’s Insensitive Recap of 9/11 For Sixth Graders

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 on our country, Channel One prepared a “recap” of the week of terror. Morgan Wandell and Jim Morris are the young men...
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Recap of Terror Put To Music

October 19, 2001
Recap of Terror Put To Music

October 19, 2001 – Channel One’s Recap of Terror… Put to Music Parents Have No Control Over What Images Channel One News Forces on Students Same Content for Ten-Year-Olds as for High School Seniors   On September 18, one week after the terrible...
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Time For Columbine To Remove Channel One

September 26, 2001

It has been several years since the terrible shootings at Columbine High School. Obligation has never mentioned the fact that Columbine students were under contract to Channel One and had to watch their TV show virtually every day of school. We had hoped that Columbine would clean up their school and remove the Channel One TV sets that...
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