a way to get schools to drop Channel one

[pstokely]

many schools carry Channel one because they get free TVs, get people in your district to give their old TVs to the schools

[Enquiringkitty]

1. Channel One is a brain washing tool. My son use to come home

and ask me if something he saw on TV at school was true and I would tell him," No sweetie, That's just the way they want it to be.". Then we would look up the truth and discuss it.

[Swamp Rat]

2. Just unplug the damn things. Kids get too much TV anyway. n/t

[Oublei]

9. Unplug them?

Unfortunately unplugging the damn TVs is not an option. Teachers around the country have reported threats of being fired when they haven't forced students to watch Channel One. It's not right, but how much to do you bet they'd rather keep their job and put up with a few minutes of brainwashing and corporate advertising?

[Swamp Rat]

17. I did it and didn't get fired.

Unplugging the TV is ALWAYS an option and I never let threats deter me from doing what's best for the children. Forcing students to watch Channel One is child abuse.

[Oublei]

19. I appreciate your enthusiasm

HOWEVER, not all teachers aren't as sure of the security of their jobs as you are. As a student currently trying to get this crap out of their school, I'm not about to ask any teacher to risk their job or even petty harassment by the school administration--which has already happened. Regardless if it's not right, it's still going to happen.

[Swamp Rat]

20. You make very good points

Take a page from Howard Dean's book, so to speak: "You have the power!"

You don't have to ask teachers to trash the propaganda box, but as free-thinkers, you and your friends can come up with creative yet safe/legal ways to defeat the alien lizards. ;)

[Oublei]

21. Have been on it for the past month and a half

With the backing of the majority of the faculty and well over 50 students. Trying my best.

[Swamp Rat]

25. Good!

Welcome to DU! :)

[LosinIt]

3. What is Channel One??

cable brainwashing??

[SoCalDem]

4. It's a "News-ette" program for school kids..

Young-ish, hip "news"casters showing the kids what's happening in the world..of course with generous doses of comemrcials for pepsi and other "fun" stuff.:)

It's Fox-Lite :(

[pstokely]

5. in-school advertising disguised as news

[Enquiringkitty]

6. Channel One is a channel that schools get in the classroom. It is

suppose to be a learning aide. It has programs on about nature and science, space, etc. The problem is, it also has news. They say the news is put in such a way that children can understand the complex nature of government. Bullshit! It is rewriting history AS it happens instead of having to wait and change history in the text books of the future. You would be shocked as to what they tell the kids on that channel.

[Fridays Child]

7. When I subbed at the high school, I'd unplug the TV during 2nd hour.

That's when they ran that crap every morning.

[RebelOne]

8. Channel One is owed by the company I work for. n/t

[Oublei]

10. My sympathies. n/t

[The Revolution]

11. I watched it when I was in high school...

And it certainly didn't brainwash me! :)

I don't remember it being too right-wing, but maybe it's changed since then. I remember Anderson Cooper used to be a reporter...he had gray hair then too. How old is that guy?

[UdoKier]

13. We still used film projectors when I was in high school...

But I'm glad we didn't have a propaganda/marketing channel.

It is a form of brainwashing - not in so much as making you love Bush or whatever, but in that it inures you to having advertising in every sphere of your life - in places where it was only recently considered very inappropriate. If they could, they would put advertising inside your eyelids for when you're sleeping.

[Ariana Celeste]

15. I dealt with Channel One just recently,

surrounding 9/11, and when we invaded Iraq.

I ignored it mostly and read or did my homework during that time, but what I remember most clearly is a "commercial"-style propaganda. The one that made me angriest, was the marijuana one.
They show shots of kids standing there, and they all have a one-liner. "So I smoked a joint? So what!", "It's only pot.", "I like getting high- who cares" kind of comments. Then the "commercial" like thing, says that everytime you buy some pot, you are funding terrorists.
Yeah, ok. As if we don't have thousands of people growing pot in America.

[The Revolution]

18. That wasn't really a channel one thing though.

That was an ad the govenment put out...it ran all over the place. It was pretty stupid though. It was the beginning of them trying to link everything to terrorism, just like when they were trying to explain how importing drugs from Canada would be bad :eyes:

[UdoKier]

12. Why do schools need TVs?

Why does any school need more than a handful of sets that can be wheeled from classroom to classroom when the need arises? The fact that schools wan a set in every room makes me worry that they intend to rely way to heavy on videos, and skimp on actual lectures and participatory activities.

[alphafemale]

22. Yeah. There were two or three sets in my entire grade school.

They'd pack people around them in larger rooms for "really" important things.

Seems like a lunar landing might have been one.

The end of Vietnam Occupation another.

[Oublei]

14. Not a successful plan.

Old televisions sets that hold the possibility of breaking or high costs for repair isn't a solution vs. new TVs that hold the promise of free repair costs.

The televisions Ch1 installed in my school probably go for $80 each. I'm sure there's some way you could order TVs in bulk for $30-40 each IF you wanted TVs for each classroom. Televisions in each classroom aren't a necessity by any means. A set of televisions and projectors on carts that could be checked out is a much more efficient use of money and space.

[pstokely]

16. many people are getting rid of the fairly new analog TVs

when they get Hi-def

[ElectroPrincess]

24. Yah! The USA Communications "powers that be" are not even going to

give the people a choice for a transition period. Just after a few years DECLARE "no more analog" TV. :shrug:

[pstokely]

26. my middle school that carried Channel one had a TV in each room

but none had VCRs hooked up to them, they would just wheel in another TV with a VCR whenever they were needed

[Oublei]

27. Well, according to ChannelOneHelp.com

Each classroom has a VCR/DVD player in addition to a TV. Considering how recent DVDs are in the gist of things, it could definitely be a new addition.

[Abelman]

23. Never had a problem

I grew up with it from sixth to 12th grade and look where I am now? The DU forum. I haven't seen it since 2000, so maybe it's gotten worse. I have definitely gotten much wiser about advertising and the world in general since then.

I remember Anderson Cooper doing all sorts of crazy shite, though. Standing up in hurricaines, on the middle of streets. It was nuts.