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Setting The Record Straight

November 10, 2003

In a recent public meeting in Douglasville, GA, a public school employee told the meeting that the Southern Baptist Convention had rescinded their1999 resolution opposing Channel One News. When asked where she got that information, she said that a Channel One News employee told her. The Southern Baptist Convention’s resolution condemning Channel One in all classrooms has...
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Another Junk Food From “Sugar Daddy”

October 27, 2003
Another Junk Food From “Sugar Daddy”

          Doritos ads are back on Channel One News. Channel One News is working overtime to push this snack product on kids. Money is flowing into Channel One News from the people at Frito-Lay, makers of Doritos and a division of PepsiCo. Marketing snacks is a major part of Channel...
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Utter Waste

October 4, 2003

Words sometimes can’t capture the utter waste of time Channel One has become. You have to see this nonsense for yourself. Check out this clip from Channel One News. It is one continuous clip. Use your watch and time the clip. Picture in your mind all the students who had to sacrifice their school time to watch this...
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Channel One Shows Promotional Clips Of Violent PG13 Movie To Middle School Students

June 12, 2003

From Jim Metrock: Any independent observer of Channel One News over the last two years would be perplexed at some of the absolutely idiotic decisions made by their programming VP, Morgan Wandell. By definition if you work for Channel One News you are a “lightweight.” Important people work elsewhere. It was Wandell that told his news anchors...
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Turning Up The Sexual Tension In Class

April 19, 2003
Turning Up The Sexual Tension In Class

She’s hot and she’s back in your child’s class. These images are from the newest Shakira/Pepsi ad playing now on Channel One News. It was shown in middle schools and high schools. Shakira comes to life in a convenience store and hikes her leg up as the stunned employee grabs her thigh. Shakari is...
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Channel One News Signs Up Hershey As Sponsor

March 31, 2003

It’s a public relations nightmare, but when you are hurting for advertisers, you sign up any company you can. Channel One News has always been a major conduit for junk food peddlers to get their messages to children, but their newest advertiser is a slap in the face to school boards. With all the reports of rising childhood...
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Texas State School Board Does Not Pass Channel One Resolution

November 25, 2002

From Jim Metrock: Channel One’s president Jim Ritts came to the Texas school board meeting himself. It was that important. A resolution urging Texas school districts to remove Channel One had been introduced in September. Channel One hastily hired the law firm of Akin Gump to represent them. But Ritts knew the stakes were too high to leave...
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Channel One Runs Provocative Ad For Children – How Scummy Can Channel One News Get?

November 19, 2002

On October 28, Channel One executives must have chuckled to themselves as they broadcast an Old Spice commercial that contained a not-too-subtle sexual reference. Children see a young man wheeling down a hallway delivering mail to various offices. He comes to a door marked “Madison Saunders, Executive V.P.”. He knows this executive is a beautiful woman. He then...
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Channel One Brings Back Marketing PG13 Movies To Middle Schools

August 8, 2002

Well, it didn’t last long. In 2000, Channel One was shamed into stopping the practice of advertising PG-13 movies in middle schools. Channel One’s lobbyists went into overdrive getting the message out that Channel One was being sensitive to their middle school audience. A little background; Although to a classroom teacher, Channel One News looks like a seamless...
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Why Are These Men Smiling?

May 2, 2002
Why Are These Men Smiling?

You would too if you received the money they do from Channel One. There is an obesity crisis among our children yet these three are happy to do whatever they can to keep Pepsi and Twinkie commercials in classrooms. “Deal with it, kid,” they might tell an unfortunate student in a school with Channel One. Violence a...
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