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Detention?.....Well, at my JH/HS We do have a news Channel, 2 actually, except they are done by the journalism, And a News Website hosted with .mac, 2 full featured Journalism Studio's with G5's, $5000 sony cameras(which may i add were the ones used in the olympics)...a Brand new boom camera, a 60,000 dollar mixing board, man we are lucky. That's what you get when you know the Superintendent of the schools and the HS teacher used to work at techTV.  Pubic School must suck for some of you.

Stuff it.

Detention?.....Well, at my JH/HS We do have a news Channel, 2 actually, except they are done by the journalism, And a News Website hosted with .mac, 2 full featured Journalism Studio's with G5's, $5000 sony cameras(which may i add were the ones used in the olympics)...a Brand new boom camera, a 60,000 dollar mixing board, man we are lucky. That's what you get when you know the Superintendent of the schools and the HS teacher used to work at techTV.  Pubic School must suck for some of you.

Stuff it.

Why? it's so cool seeing the studio and next year possibly the only freshman in video journalism....

...And a News Website hosted with .mac, 2 full featured Journalism Studio's with G5's, $5000 sony cameras(which may i add were the ones used in the olympics)...a Brand new boom camera, a 60,000 dollar mixing board, man we are lucky. That's what you get when you know the Superintendent of the schools and the HS teacher used to work at techTV.  Pubic School must suck for some of you.

And what does this have to do with anything other then the fact that you are so full of yourself you're about to burst?

Yeah I remember having to watch that all through JH.  Man did I hate that show.  I believe the whole school hated the show, but for some odd reason they kept playing it.

Then in HS I think they had it play at the beginning of the day during first period.  I'm not sure since I had the same class all four years and our teacher rather watch CNN on our 37" TV  (even though it was hooked up to a gateway  ) or actualy teach the class and let us learn about something that teaches us something.  It was nice having a teacher who didn't enjoy the channel as much as the rest of the students.

wow, I've never heard of this before

Detention?.....Well, at my JH/HS We do have a news Channel, 2 actually, except they are done by the journalism, And a News Website hosted with .mac, 2 full featured Journalism Studio's with G5's, $5000 sony cameras(which may i add were the ones used in the olympics)...a Brand new boom camera, a 60,000 dollar mixing board, man we are lucky. That's what you get when you know the Superintendent of the schools and the HS teacher used to work at techTV.  Pubic School must suck for some of you.

Wow, all of that for a High School...  I'd like to see some of the productions they turn out.  All that seems like an awful waste for a bunch of beginners who would probably be better off learning the basics on simpler, yet just as effective equipment.  Also $5000 isn't much for a studio camera, even an ENG camera for that matter.  Also considering that the Olympics were simulcast in HD this year there is no way they were using $5000 cameras. More like twelve times that, if not more. Beyond that, good for your school, sounds like they have a better setup than a lot of local news stations have around the country.

Back on track.

This is the first I've ever heard of CH 1.  Sounds like some crap to me though. Contracts between large corporations and schools.  The schools get money as long as they shove the sell down the kids throats.  If you seriously wanted to raise concern I would write a letter listing them: Number one should be that you do not feel that taking in news from one viewpoint, especially one that has a commercial interest in its audience, is fair and balanced.  If they want to teach kids about current events and media, great! But you cannot accept the reporting of one agency to be the 100% truth.  It might all be fact, but it is all about how it is presented.  So maybe they should let you watch CNN, BBC, or even Fox News a couple days a week rather than CH. 1 and let you determine what you want to believe yourself.

I'm very curious about this Channel One now.  Do they actually show ads, or "sponsored by" bits?  Do they gather their own news or do they get it from another source? (AP, CNN, ABC etc...) What is their delivery method? Satellite? Cable? Microwave?   Do they only do news, or do they produce other programing too?  Do they pass themselves off as a non-profit organization?

I don't think any of the schools locally have it, but we do have ITV.  It is run by the county school board.  I can't give an unbiased opinion of the programming as I work for the mentioned organization and have worked on some ITV productions.  I will say they tend to avoid news a bit and lean towards the left more than one would expect when they do. Their main purpose is to produce educational and community based programing.  Those of you from San Diego have probably at least heard of MathVision.

dude...I am not that rich. Other people there are. I see Sophmores get into Beamers. I saw a Viper RT-10 in the senior parking lot the other day.....They bring A classic ford GT and a Viper in from Skip Barber at Laguna Seca for the kids who sell the most magazines...Only thing good about it is next year I get free tickets to football games.

dude...I am not that rich. Other people there are. I see Sophmores get into Beamers. I saw a Viper RT-10 in the senior parking lot the other day.....They bring A classic ford GT and a Viper in from Skip Barber at Laguna Seca for the kids who sell the most magazines...Only thing good about it is next year I get free tickets to football games.

Then stop acting like it.

We have Channel one in our school. Some teachers require you to be silent when it's on and some just don't care. I've been lucky enough to work the system to where I never have to go to seminar, which means I'm never subjected to channel one. I just sit down in the lunch room and play poker or sleep when those idiots are funneling the masses into classrooms to "watch the news".

On the subject of pep rallies and why they suck, we had that issue over homecoming last year and it was huge. A few students wrote a letter to the editor that said teachers are biased in favor of the jocks, and when the teachers responded with a letter to the editor the editor published their letter with a note that he supports the students.

i havent seen this chan 1 you speak of, but try watching afn (armed forces networks- think:the only english chanels we can get, provided by the us govt.  it never ceases to amaze me how horrible the commercials are. no wonder we never watch tv)