TV & Video - Dec. 19, 1989

A Vote for CNN Newsroom. Four national education groups said Monday that they support Turner Broadcasting Co.’s CNN Newsroom, a commerical-free news program, for classroom use and denounced rival Channel One because it carries commercials. “Exploitation of a captive audience in the classroom, using the classroom and the curriculum as a marketplace for products rather than a marketplace for ideas, and selling or trading students in a classroom for a satelite dish or a television monitor are outrageous breaches of ethical practice,”’ Gary Marx, associate executive director of the American Assn. of School Administrators, said about Channel One. Marx joined representatives of the National PTA, the National Assn. of Secondary School Principals and the National Education Assn. at a news conference with Ted Turner, president of Turner Broadcasting. Channel One is produced by Whittle Communications of Knoxville, Tenn.