Do they air Channel One in your local schools?

[pstokely]

They aired it at my middle school during homeroom but not my high school, both in the same district. A lot of us just napped during it and the homeroom teacher didn't really care, no one got any punishment for not paying attention to it. I don't know if they still air it there.

[RagAss]

1. Channel One? Sorry, what is that ?

[pstokely]

2. A commercial "news" channel that airs in public schools

They give away equipment to schools if the school airs their morning "news" show. Although they always had to wheel a TV with a VCR into the classroom to show a video because the TVs Channel One put in my middle school didn't have VCRs connected to them

[RagAss]

3. Gotcha. Does it have a political slant ?

[pstokely]

5. Same slant as the rest of the corporate media

nt

[RagAss]

7. Ugh !

[craigmatic]

4. They did when I graduated a decade ago

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. I don't think many schools air it any more

Haven't heard anything about it for a decade or so.

[pstokely]

9. Has anyone seen "The Greatest Movie Ever Sold" yet

Morgan Spurlock visited a high school that aired Channel One. The school had similar Magnovox tube TVs that Channel One gave to my middle school over a decade ago.

Like this below

[wickerwoman]

8. The showed it in my high school when Anderson Cooper was still a correspondent.

Some of the teachers unplugged it and taught over it until they were forced to stop. Other teachers left it on while they did the crossword puzzle and didn't care if we watched it. Most were pissed about the advertising. It really is just an excuse to run Pepsi ads in schools.

But I never forgot Anderson Cooper as a correspondent in the first Iraq War crying in his hotel room because they were bombing down the street from him. On the one hand, it really brought home that war is not a place for kids (or anyone for that matter). On the other hand, it annoyed me that every story was all about him and his reactions (compared with McNeill Lehrer which I used to watch at home with my parents.) Kind of foreshadowing the "new news" which is all about the network or the reporter, not the story.

[xmas74]

11. I remember him looking for Khmer Rouge members.

We used to take bets on whether or not he'd live to finish the story. The majority were betting against him.

Our school actually won a Channel One contest back in the early 90's.

[Golden Raisin]

10. Times change.

The only time anything was "aired" when I was in school was when an Astronaut was launched into space from what was then known as Cape Canaveral. A black & white TV was wheeled into the cafeteria and we all trooped in to watch.

[Curmudgeoness]

12. I hope it is not still in the schools. I called it indoctrination.

In the 1990's, it was in all the schools because the schools were struggling to afford technology in classrooms, and they furnished the TV/VCR in every classroom in exchange for feeding fluff news with lots of commercials. I don't know of any teachers who were not appalled by the whole thing, but they were powerless to fight it. And they did enjoy having the TV/VCR available.

[pstokely]

13. It's stilll in school in some places

Morgan Spurlock visited a school in Florida that had it in his latest movie. I think the schools are supposed to force kids to watch it but no one was punished for not paying attention to it at my middle school

[HopeHoops]

14. Unfortunately - propaganda, ads, and bullshit.