U.S Senate Hearing On Channel One Testimony

May 27, 1999

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A U.S. Senate Hearing on Channel
One

Committee on Health, Education,
Labor and Pensions

May 20, 1999

The Hearing that Channel One spent hundreds
of thousands of dollars to stop, happened on Thursday, May 20,
1999. We will publish the spoken testimony and the questions and
answers as soon as possible. Channel One is being dragged into
the sunshine and they don’t like it. This page is dedicated to
Mrs. Pat Ellis of Jasper, AL, who never gave up fighting Channel
One’s commercial exploitation.


Written Testimony of:

Statement
of Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) Concerning Channel One. May
20, 1999.

Dr.
Diane Berreth, Deputy Executive Director, Association for Supervision
and Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA

Paul Folkemer, VP Channel One, New
York, NY

Ralph
Nader, Founder, Commercial Alert, Washington, D.C.

Phyllis
Schlafly, President of Eagle Forum, St. Louis, MO

Father Peter Weigand, Principal St. Anselm’s
Abbey School, Washington, D.C.

The above persons testified in person.
Channel One’s lobbying couldn’t stop the hearing, but it did severly
limit the number of people allowed to speak out against Channel
One. The following submitted their written testimony to the committee.
Whether the committee included this material in their report is
unknown.

Testimony
of Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media Ecology, New York University
Director, Project on Media Ownership (PROMO).

Testimony of Pat Ellis, Education
Director of Obligation, Inc.

Testimony
of Roy F. Fox, Associate Professor of English Education &
Literacy.

Testimony
of Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., Executive Director, Center for
Science in the Public Interest.

Testimony
of Henry Labalme, Executive Director of TV-Free America.

Testimony of Jim Metrock, President
of Obligation, Inc.
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Testimony
of Casey M. "Buddy" Smith, Jr., Executive Assistant
of the American Family Association.m
ony

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Hearings on Channel One – "Channel One Criticized as ‘Crass
Commercialism’" May 24, 1999

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etrock,
President of Obligation, Inc.

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