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Watch or Go to Jail |
Current rating: 0 |
by Eliza Strickland
(No verified email address) |
03 Mar 2001
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STUDENTS LOCKED UP AFTER REFUSING TO WATCH CHANNEL ONE |
When Ohio teenagers DJ and Carlotta Maurer walked out of their
classrooms in October to protest the compulsory viewing of Channel
One, a television program with commercials which is shown in schools
across America, school officials realized they had a couple of dangerous
radicals on their hands. Principal Patrick Calvin invoked the truancy
provision of the school's code of student conduct, and 13-year-old DJ
and 14-year-old Carlotta were whisked away to the Wood County
Juvenile Detention Center, where they had all day to consider their
crime.
Since then, Commercial Alert and Obligation, Inc., two national
anti-media groups, have taken up the Maurers' cause. The groups wrote
to Ohio Governor Bob Taft, urging him to remove Channel One from all
public schools.
"When the government sends children to a juvenile detention center
because they don't want to watch advertising, that is both Orwellian and
more than a little sick," reads the letter. "The public schools ought to be
a sanctuary from the noxious aspects of commercial culture."
The governor has not responded to the letter. But the school is in
negotiation with the Maurers, who have religious objections to television.
It seems a day in the lockup didn't cool their heels enough to keep them
from kicking.
– Eliza Strickland |
See also:
http://adbusters.org/magazine/34/jail.html
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Yes, at least a 7 on the appall-o-meter |
by Peter MIller
(No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0
05 Mar 2001
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Does anyone know when this happened, and whether the criminals asked for any assistance? |
