NBC is out to mold impressionable minds

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Classroom TV network Channel One is partnering with NBC News. Most of the coverage refers to the ad-supported service as “controversial.” Why? Have today’s kids never seen advertising or a newscast? I was raised on commercials and sound bytes, and look how I turned out. (Yeah, yeah. Save it for the comments section.) NBC will help produce the 10-minute segments and also provide some of its own video clips. One assumes these won’t feature Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers, the latest hosts of Weekend

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