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From the archives: 5/1/97 “How To Be Stupid – The Lessons of Channel One” Mark Crispin Miller

May 20, 2015
From the archives:  5/1/97  “How To Be Stupid – The Lessons of Channel One” Mark Crispin Miller

  How To Be Stupid – The Lessons Of Channel One May 1, 1997   From Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting Extra! May/June 1997 How to be Stupid The Lessons of Channel One By Mark Crispin Miller News, of course, is not the point of Channel One-any more than it’s the point of those commercial TV newscasts...
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Channel One News Hall of Shame: Stealth TV (2001)

January 14, 2012

“Channel One’s then-president bragged to a youth marketing conference in 1994, ‘The biggest selling point to advertisers … we are forcing kids to watch two minutes of commercials… . The advertiser gets a group of kids who cannot go to the bathroom, who cannot change the station, who cannot listen to their mother yell in the background,...
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How To Be Stupid – The Lessons Of Channel One

May 1, 1997

From Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting Extra! May/June 1997 How to be Stupid The Lessons of Channel One By Mark Crispin Miller News, of course, is not the point of Channel One-any more than it’s the point of those commercial TV newscasts that many of us watch at home night after night. If the basic...
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