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December 2006
Middle School
Girls Gone Wild (New York Times, 12/29/06)
What's Wrong With
Cinderella?
(New York Times, 12/26/06)
Commercial
marketing in schools may discourage healthy nutrition
environment (Penn State Live, 12/13/06)
T will no longer
display advertisements for violent video games (AP,
12/12/06)
Buybabies: marketing to kids
(The Economist, 12/9/06)
Pediatricians
Blast Inappropriate Ads (AP, 12/4/06)
Weak-willed food makers need a prod
(Albany Times Union,
12/3/06)
McDonald's trying a new
play on PlayPlace (Chicago Tribune, 12/2/06)
Kids don't get building blocks
of learning from high-tech play (Boston Globe, 12/2/06)
November 2006
Study: Violent video game effects linger in brain
(Reuters, 11/28/06)
‘Tweens‘ becoming the
new teens (Associated Press, 11/25/06)
Revealed: Secret tricks to sell junk food to children
(Scotsman, 11/24/06)
Six Strategies Marketers
Use to Get Kids to Want Stuff Bad (USA Today,
11/22/06)
Free speech, not
a free ride (Boston Globe, 11/22/06)
T should put
the brakes on violent video game ads (11/20/06)
Taking consumerism out of school book fairs
(Boston Globe, 11/20/06)
UK Junk Food Ad Crackdown Announced (11/17/06)
EU nations agree to keep TV advertising at current
levels, impose limits on product placement
(AP,
11/13/06)
Classic building blocks
beat media toys (Winnipeg Free Press, 11/10/06)
Car makers direct more
ads at kids (Wall St. Journal, 11/9/06)
Call
for children's food ad curbs
(BBC, 11/03/06)
October
2006
Big Marketers Smell
Money in Scent Technology (AdAge.com, 10/31/06)
A Mr. Rogers for
a new age (Boston Globe, 10/26/06)
Disney's PR Strategy Unhealthy for 'Little Consumers'
(Alternet, 10/19/06)
New Disney Rules
Limit Character Use in Kids' Foods (Television
Week, 10/17/06)
Pediatricians criticize
use of TVs in hospital (Boston Globe, 10/17/06)
TVs in bedrooms may make kids fat
(CanWest
10/16/06)
TV Really Might Cause Autism (Slate.com, 10/16/06)
Review Of
Kids Ad Rules Getting Messy (Brandweek, 10/16/06)
Reynolds to Drop
Flavored Cigarettes (AP, 10/11/06)
Diddy inks promotional deal
with Burger King (Miami Herald, 10/10/06)
In-Game Ads Burrow
Deeper (Wired, 10/5/06)
Child
protection advocates hit at Wal-Mart (Financial
Times, 10/5/06)
TV Hurts
School Performance (AP, 10/2/06)
Critics riled
that teen book plugs makeup (Hartford Courant,
10/1/06)
September 2006
Study: Advertisements
for high-fat foods permeate TV targeting toddlers
(AP, 9/30/06)
Industry:
Updated Children's Ad Guidelines Needed Now (Media
Post, 9/26/06)
Schools stall
BusRadio (Taunton Gazette, 9/21/06)
Court
Allows McDonald's Food Fight (New York Law
Journal, 9/21/06)
Psychologists
push back against market forces and products that
sexualize young girls (APA Monitor, September
2006)
School buses
in 11 states tune in to radio programming aimed at
kids (USA Today, 9/17/06)
Selling a book by its CoverGirl (Denver Post,
9/17/06)
Senate Calls for
Media Study (AdWeek, 9/14/06)
Would You Like
Fries With That Monopoly Game? (New York Times,
9/12/06)
Junk culture 'is
poisoning our children'
(The Guardian, 9/12/06)
TV
channel for babies? Pediatricians say turn it off
(SF Chronicle, 9/11/06)
Playing up
playtime: It’s kids’ learning gift (Kansas City
Star, 9/6/06)
Exploitative Internet marketing fuels child obesity
(Reuters, 9/5/06)
Movie Trailers
Expose Youth to Tobacco Abuse (Forbes.com, 9/4/06)
August 2006
CDC Criticizes
Radio Alcohol Ads (Associated Press, 8/31/06)
No
Escaping Sexualization of Young Girls (LA Times,
8/25/06)
PBS to sell online ads (Broadcasting and Cable, 8/24/06)
What can parents do? (Los Angeles Daily News, 8/24/06)
Product placement to triple (BBC, 8/18/08)
Coming Soon to Cellphone
Screens -- More Ads Than Ever (Wall St. Journal, 8/16/06)
Ads coming to textbooks
(AP 8/15/06)
Procter & Gamble Takes
Tampax Into the Classroom (Brandweek, 8/14/06)
Lawyer Fighting To Ban
'Columbine Simulator' (TechWeb
Technology News, August 14, 2006)
Though firm sees a winner in 'Baby Badger' DVD, critics throw
a flag (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8/11/06)
How to get to
Stereotype Street (Boston Globe, 8/10/06)
Study urges
cutback in soda (Wisconsin Journal Sentinel,
8/9/06)
From the
sandbox to the spa (USA Today, August 1 2006)
Barbie Is the Least
of My Problems, as a Mom (NPR.org, 8/1/06)
Tweens and Media: What's Too
Adult? (NPR.org, 8/1/06)
July 2006
For Toddlers, a World
Laden with Advertising (NPR.org, 7/31/06)
How Advertising Is
Becoming Child's Play (Science News Online, 7/29/06)
Sodas win over health in
public schools (Mississippi Clarion Ledger, 7/25/06)
Imprinting Infants
(Hartford Courant, 7/24/06)
Brownback Doesn't Back Kids Marketing Mandates (Broadcasting
& Cable, 7/21/06)
Kids Kill In Violent
Christian Videogame (Alternet, 7/21/06)
Is it a game or an advertisement?
(Chicago Tribune, 7/20/06)
Food groups increase use
of internet to target children
(Financial Times, 7/19/06)
Social
responsibility of Coca-Cola questioned (Atlanta
Journal-Constiution, 7/18/06)
Baby TV Comes to
Canada (Global National, 7/11/06)
Burger King Movie in the Works
(AdAge.com, 7/10/06)
Mobile TV is a hit with children looking to share
clips with friends (Brand Republic, 7/10/06)
The "Other" Child Predators:
Advertisers (ConsumerAffairs.com,
7/9/06)
June 2006
Surgery With a Side of
Fries (New York Times, July 6, 2006)
The Flavor of
Marketing to Kids (Washington Post, 6/29/06)
Making sports fans of the
diaper set (LA Times, 6/26/06)
Getting the Kids
Hooked on Starbucks (Wall Street Journal, 6/27/06)
Coke slots in extras to
new machines
(Financial Times, 6/26/06)
Food makers target
kids' sense of cool (NJ.com, 6/24/06)
Corporate
Money in School Sports Favors Boys, May Violate Law
(The NewStandard, 6/26/06)
Sexy
styles beckon little girls (Denver Post,
6/24/06)
EXTREME PARENTING
: Does the Baby Genius Edutainment Complex enrich your
child's mind — or stifle it?
(Atlantic Monthly,
July/August 2006)
PC In-Game
Advertising Revenue to
Top $400 Million by 2009 (MediaBuyerPlanner,
6/14/06)
Marketers pursue kids ad nauseam (Chicago Sun-Times,
6/14/06)
Hey, Kid, You Want to
Buy a Toyota Scion? (New York Times, 6/14/06)
Product
Placement Deals Make Leap From Film to Books (New
York Times, 6/12/06)
Listen up: No radio
(Boston Globe, 6/10/06)
Mansfield pulls
plug on Bus Radio (Sun Chronicle, 6/5/06)
May 2006
NPD Study: More and More
Children Using Consumer Electronics (AdAge.com,
5/31/06)
Fifth-graders study,
analyze, create ads (Columbia Daily Tribune, 5/30/06)
Brave new world for summer
tie-ins (Reuters, 5/30/06)
Study says violence
still abounds in children's television (Kansas City Star,
5/29/06)
Have the heirs of Barbie
hit limit for risqué dolls? (5/25/06)
Kaiser Tallies
Kids' TV Hours (5/24/06)
Why Hollywood Studios
Can't Kick the Junk-Food Habit (AdAge.com, 5/19/06)
Schools Selling
Ads, Raising Funds to Pay for Basics, Study Warns (CBC,
5/15/06)
M&M math for fat kids
(La Times, 5/15/05)
Caffeine: The Last
Vice Standing (Brandweek, 5/13/05)
The Shrinking
Childhood
(Detroit Free Press, 5/13/06)
Round-The-Clock TV
Channel For Babies Debuts (Associated Press,
5/12/06)
Junk-food Pushers
on Defensive as Kids’ Advocates Push Back (New
Standard, 5/8/06)
Fed Obesity Report
Seen as Boon To Self-Regulation
(Brand Week,
5/8/06)
Soda Deal with Clinton
Foundation Latest PR Stunt
(5/5/06)
Group Sues
Video Firms On Tot-Learning Claims (Washington
Post, 5/2/06)
Baby videos
deceptive, advocacy group argues (Boston Globe,
5/2/06)
April 2006
Word Games (Brand
Week, 4/26/06)
Alcopops - Cute, Boozy and
Pitched to Teenage Girls (4/25/06)
Stuff the kids by Eric Schlosser (The Guardian,
4/24/06)
Industry
lobbying 'derailed junk food ban'
(The Guardian,
4/22/06)
Look -- Up
in the Sky! Product Placement! (Wall St. Journal,
4/18/06)
As Pop Music Seeks
New Sales, the Pussycat Dolls Head to Toyland
(New
York Times, 4/17/06)
Burger King's
'King' to Star in Video Games (Advertising Age,
4/14/06)
Proved: TV
Leads to Junk Food Diet (London Times, 4/9/06)
Bill Strikes at
Low-Nutrition Foods in School (New York
Times, 4/6/06)
Studies Link Media to
Modern Ills (Kansas City Star, 4/5/06)
Elmo loves
you...and your wallet (Scripps News Service,
4/5/06)
Children's Demands for
Toys and Food Increase With TV Time, Researchers Say
(San Francisco Chronicle, 4/4/06)
Black-Oriented
TV Has More Fast-Food Ads (Associated
Press, 4/04/06)
Sexy media a siren call to promiscuity? (Reuters,
4/04/06)
Stage Prop for the Today
how or What’s Become of Relevant Information
Dissemination for Parent (Gloria DeGaetano,
4/3/06)
March 2006
Merchants of filth
have worthy foe (NY Daily News, 4/3/06)
Smoke and mirrors
(Toronto Sun, 3/30/06)
Ofcom proposes ban on kids'
junk food ads (The Guardian, 3/28/06)
Internet used to
push fast food to children, say campaigners
(The
Guardian, 3/27/06)
Backside of
free speech (Boston Globe, 3/27/06)
DVD series for
babies, parents fuels TV debate
(Boston Globe, 3/22/06)
Experts Rip
'Sesame' TV Aimed at Tiniest Tots (Washington Post,
3/21/06)
From sports events to
book characters, all is for sale (Atlanta Journal
Constitution, 3/19/06)
Senator makes
waves with anti-obesity campaign (Financial Times,
3/14/06)
Young Adult
Fiction: Wild Things
(New York Times Book Review,
3/12/06)
Food
industry not responsive to obesity, claims report
(Food Navigator, 3/6/06)
Study:
Students Remember More Channel One Ads Than News
(Associated Press, 3/5/06)
Soda targeted in fight
against obesity (Associated Press, 3/5/06)
Product
placements creep into children's entertainment
(Gannet, 2/28/06)
February 2006
Turning Kids' Minds
Off Consumerism (Op-Ed News, 2/26/06)
Selling
Junk Food to Toddlers
(New York Times, 2/23/06)
Hot new market for
cellphones: young kids (Seattle Times, 2/23/06)
Courting
Kids, Networks Aim Younger (TelevisionWeek,
2/20/06)
Stop
undermining parents (USA Today, 2/19/06)
Parents, teachers deal with trend of aggressive
marketing to kids (Atlanta Journal Constitution,
2/19/06)
Toy-makers jump on iPod
fad (Associated Press, 2/15/06)
Billion-Dollar
Babies (Broadcasting and Cable, 2/13/06)
Conspicuous Little Consumers (Alternet, 2/13/06)
McDonald's and
Disney: Fat and Happy (Philadelphia Daily News,
2/10/06)
Kids And Neopets:
Who's Getting Fed? (CBS.com, 2/9/06)
A 'Curious'
promo strategy for monkey cartoon
(Reuters,
2/7/06)
TV watching takes away
from family time (UPI, 2/7/06)
Time to
kick kid ads in the square pants
(NY Daily
News, 2/5/06)
Food is a curse - and
a cure (Cape Cod Times, 2/5/06)
These toys are to cry
for (Miami Herald, 2/4/06)
Baby Einsteins or
baby couch potatoes? (Wisconsin State Journal,
2/2/06)
January
2006
Children, Media
and Sex: A Big Book of Blank Pages (New York
Times, 1/31/05)
Suing the Pants
Off SpongeBob (Alternet, 1/31/06)
When 'free'
merchandise isn't; lawsuit targets Scholastic
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1/31/06)
Europe
Limits School Soft Drink Marketing (AdAge,
1/31/06)
Food Giants Accused
of Underhand Tactics to Target Child Customers
(The Independent, 1/30/06)In
Tots' TV Shows, A
Booming Market, Toys Get Top Billing (Wall St.
Journal, 1/27/06)
In-game ads link to the
real world (Christian Science Monitor, 1/26/05)
SpongeBob, Kellogg
Get The Big Squeeze (Brandweek, 1/24/05)
Fisher-Price tackles electronics with KidTronics
(Reuters, 1/23/05)
Burger King to
send extended ad to customers of Sprint phone video
(USA Today, 1/20/05)
Marketers
Want to Appear on Small Screen (New York Times,
1/16/05)
Dunkin' for
Advergames (Games Daily, 1/16/05)
Protecting Kids From
Adult Spam (Wall Street Journal, 1/12/05)
East Meets West,
Adding Pounds and Peril (New York Times,
1/12/05)
Diabetes and the
trash food industry (Boston Globe, 1/11/05)
How We Took the
Child Out of Childhood (New York Times, 1/08/05)
At Least One Bratz Babyz
Has Abandoned Her Thong
(Hartford Courant, 1/04/06)
New study
finds alcohol ads contribute to underage drinking
(Reuters, 1/3/06)
Are we so
immersed in media brine that it's become an
environmental health hazard? (SF Chronicle,
1/01/06)
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