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On the air of the [Russian] Vremya program on Channel One, one of the employees staged a protest action. She stood behind TV presenter Ekaterina Andreeva and unfolded an anti-war poster with the call: “Stop the war, don’t believe the propaganda, they lie to you here.” According to preliminary data, Marina Ovsyannikova, who worked as an editor, staged a protest on the air. She was taken to the Ostankino police station. Marina Ovsyannikova also recorded a video message... What is happening in Ukraine now is a crime, and Russia is an aggressor country and the responsibility for this aggression lies...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – First Lady Michelle Obama took to the airwaves Friday in a Channel One interview beamed into thousands of school classrooms to an estimated 5 million students across America. The-First-Lady-on-Lunch-262x175The Hill reports: First lady Michelle Obama said it was “natural” that kids are “grumbling” over new requirements for schools to fill vending machines and lunch lines with healthier food, but that it would not deter her from improving child nutrition. According to a transcript provided on the Channel One website, Obama said, “I know kids are grumbling because they have to make changes. Trust me, my kids roll...

The rally last December was one of nearly a dozen paid-for protests organized by Russian émigrés in the U.S. in the past two years. They spent $150,000 to $200,000 in some months, accounting records indicate, to rally thousands of demonstrators near spots such as United Nations headquarters and the World Trade Center site. State-controlled Russian television, whose content is closely guided by Kremlin handlers, covered some of the events, often as the only news organ present, showing video of them on the evening news back home. Boris Barshevsky at a pay-for-protest rally in Queens, N.Y., last year. Organizers said the...

Printed from http://www.texasobserver.org © Texas Democracy Foundation Return to site Thin Reed Will Abramoff’s Deep Throat Swallow God’s Mouthpiece? by Andrew Wheat Evidence is mounting that former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed Jr., along with a former leader of the Texas Christian Coalition, may have illegally lobbied Texas state officials on behalf of crooked federal lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his clients. Three Austin-based reform groups—Common Cause Texas, Public Citizen Texas, and Texans For Public Justice, the latter of which employs the author of this article—urged Travis County prosecutors last December to investigate whether Reed violated Texas’ lobby-registration laws four years...

American teens have spoken, and they want George W. Bush for president. Nearly 1.4 million teens voted in the nation's largest mock election, and the Republican incumbent wound up with 393 electoral votes and 55 percent of the total votes cast.

Young Americans in a mock presidential election have chosen President Bush to occupy the White House for the next four years, producing another map of the U.S. dominated by "red states" in support of the Republican incumbent. The election, conducted by Channel One, the company that provides a daily newscast for public schools across the nation, included the participation of nearly 1.4 million teenage Americans. Bush received 55 percent of the popular vote, which translated into 393 electoral votes to Democrat John Kerry's 145 electoral votes. Kerry, who picked up 40 percent of the popular votes, won the states of...

Teens who predicted President Bush's narrow victory in 2000 have reelected him, according to a Clearasil nationwide mock poll conducted by Channel One News. Bush received 55 percent of the vote to Senator John Kerry's 40 percent, with 5 percent going to third-party candidates. The acne medication, advertised by Interpublic Group's McCann Erickson, New York, with planning and buying performed by Medicom, sponsored the poll. The in-school TV network, which broadcasts from Los Angeles to more than 8 million students nationwide, had 1.4 million teens return online ballots Monday and Tuesday. The ballots were numbered to prevent stuffing. "Clearasil has...

Bush Secures 393 Electoral Votes and Wins All Swing States But One, With Kerry Receiving 145 Electoral VotesSponsored by Clearasil, Channel One's OneVote 2004 Initiative One of the Largest Online Teen Votes Ever With Nearly 1,400,000 Ballots LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- President George W. Bush was elected to a second term as President with 55% of the votes in Channel One News' OneVote 2004, one of the largest online teen elections in US history. Senator John Kerry received 40%, with 5% voting for a third party candidate. Although pundits believe that there are a number of "swing" states...

Susan Linn knows children's television. She began her career in children's entertainment, where her work included several appearances with her puppets working on "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" with the late Fred Rogers. "I've always had a really strong interest to use media to promote the health and well-being of children," said Linn, a psychologist at Harvard University's Judge Baker Children's Center. She said Rogers was a "really good example of somebody who conducted a career in television without selling out" to commercialism. As commercialism in the form of sponsored sports teams, billboards and soda machines creeps into more schools, Linn and...

By NAZILA FATHI EHRAN, June 21 — Jilla, a prosperous homemaker, has been trying to outwit the Iranian government's campaign to jam Persian-language satellite television stations based in Los Angeles. First she adjusted her satellite dish. Then she attached an empty can. She even tied a pot lid to a mop, and stood the lid upright facing the dish. No luck. Advertisement "I have become restless; I have no idea what's going on with the protests," she said, staring helplessly at a European music channel. Jilla, 46, said her family and friends were taking part in the protests against the...

Channel One has been pumping liberal bilge into my, and the nation's schools. Today their poll is on Iraq, this needs a HUGE FREEP to shut them up. Plus, I want to know if they would even report the results tomorrow. FREEP ON! Poll is on the main page