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2008

Pester Power: Curbing Your Child's Inner Consumer
CBC News, December 23, 2008

Distributor Gives Bratz the Boot

Winnipeg Free Press, September 18, 2008

 

Ads Banned on South Carolina School Buses

WSAV.com, September 10, 2008

 

MPAA: Not All PG-13 Films Are Alike

Broadcast and Cable, September 10, 2008

Disney Dialing Up Kids Again
Forbes, August 20, 2008

Grade-school Lolita: ‘So Sexy So Soon’

The Today Show, August 6, 2008

 

Marketers sneak into pop songs

Marketplace, August 5, 2008

 

Many tweens watching 'R' films despite restriction

USA Today, August 5, 2008

 

A Product’s Place Is on the Set

New York Times, July 22, 2008

 

'Wall-E' Gives Glimpse of Product Placement's Future

Advertising Age, July 17, 2008

 

Real healing in pretend world: The Boston Globe Reviews Susan Linn's Book

Boston Globe, July 14, 2008

 

It’s American Brandstand: Marketers Underwrite Performers

New York Times, July 7, 2008

 

Perfect storm: Kids, phones, ads, free

Media Life, June 30, 2008

 

Survey Reveals Moms Wary of Ads Aimed at Kids

Advertising Age, June 25, 2008

 

Is make-believe vital to kids? You better believe it: An interview with CCFC's Susan Linn

USA Today, June 25, 2008

 

Study Says Youth Are Swimming in Alcohol Ads

Advertising Age, June 24, 2008

 

Stilettos for babies

Toronto Star, 6/13/08

 

Childhood for sale on Alloy website

Upstate Today, 6/12/08

 

Beloved Characters as Reimagined for the 21st Century

New York Times, 6/11/08

 

Tell kids about how ads affect them - then take conversations further

Philadelphia Inquirer, 6/11/08

 

PG-13 isn't for young children

Boston Globe, 6/7/08

 

Teen flicks targeted at children

Los Angeles Times, 6/5/08

 

The power of a make-believe world

Boston Globe, 6/3/08

 

Are ads on children's social networking sites harmless child's play or virtual insanity?

The Independent, 6/2/08

 

Entering Virtual Worlds for Real-Life Pitches (New York Times, 5/29/08)

 

Should the Government Make Us Happy? (Miller-McCune, 5/19/08)

 

Keep Targeting Kids and the Parents Will Start Targeting You (Advertising Age, 5/19/08)

 

When Web Time Is Playtime (New York Times, 5/8/08)

 

Summer movies drive toys full-speed to shelves (USA Today, 4/29/08)

 

Toddlers coming of digital age (USA Today, 4/30/08)

 

Forget Miley Cyrus. Check out Disney's Chinese underwear ad (Slate.com, 4/29/08)

 

Movie Tie-Ins Coming Soon to Everywhere Near You (Advertising Age, 4/17/08)

 

Pop culture pulls in major bucks (USA Today, 4/17/08)

 

Teach children to resist marketing void (Food Sleuth, 4/16/08)

 

Skip In Time: New Research Service Targets Kids (Media Daily News, 4/11/08)

 

Meet the retail arbiters (Star-Tribune, 4/8/08)

 

Parental guidance suggested (Boston Globe, 4/1/08)

 

Don’t forget importance of play (Associate Press, 3/16/08)

 

A One-Eyed Invader in the Bedroom (New York Times, 3/4/08)

 

Let's Rewrite the Rules for Kids' Media (Business Week, 3/2/08)

 

Children 'damaged' by materialism (BBC News, 2/26/08)

 

How To Avoid Raising Materialistic Children (WCCO, 2/25/08)

 

Commercialism is harming children's lives (The Children's Society, 2/27/08)

 

MGA Entertainment to Roll Out America’s Next Top Model Dolls (Worldscreen, 2/19/08)

 

Playboy is being marketed to pre-teens like Barbie or Bratz (TES, 2/15/08)

 

'CosmoGirl's' Pot Calls the Kettle Black (News Busters, 2/7/08)

 

Generation Diva: Pampering could give little girls the wrong attitude (Arizona Republic, 1/15/08)

 

Would Hannah Montana wear it? (Boston Globe, 1/10/08)

2007

Barbie's off boozin' with the Bratz Pack (Yourhub.com, 12/16/07)

 

Bratz Media Empire Grows (Video Business, 12/5/07)

 

Teens stress most over body image (The Sunshine Coast Daily, 12/4/07)

 

Taking the Axe to Unilever's hypocrisy (Toronto Star, 11/28/07)

 

Dove viral draws heat from critics (Advertising Age, 11/26/07)

 

Are young girls dressing too revealingly? (Good Morning America, 10/27/07)

 

Unilever shuns stereotypes of women (unless talking to men) (New York Times, 10/15/07)

 

CCFC accuses Unilever of ad hypocrisy (LA Times, 10/10/07)

 

Starvation diets of schoolgirls striving for supermodel size (Daily Mail, 7/24/07)

 

Body spray ads amuse, but do they offend, too? (Sacramento Bee, 11/6/07)

A company's ugly contradiction (Boston Globe, 11/5/07)

Lolita's Closet: Unbearably trampy back-to-school clothes (Salt Lake Tribune, 8/6/07)

More than a doll, baby (Philadelphia Inquirer, 8/2/07)

Too Sexy, Too Soon (Parents.com, 8/01/07)

 

Are Bratz Dolls Too Sexy? (MSNBC, 4/11/07)

 

Marketing what? To whom?  (Houston Chronicle, 3/21/07)

Trash the plastic slappers (Bratz) (Courier Mail, 3/20/07)

 

Parents push to boot Bratz books from Scholastic fairs (CanWest, 2/28/07)

 

Message and the Media: Our girls deserve better (San Francisco Chronicle, 2/26/07)

 

As Pop Culture Targets Ever Younger Girls, Psychologists Worry About a Premature

 

Focus on Sex and Appearance (Washington Post, 2/20/07)

 

Why are we dressing our daughters like this? (McLeans, 1/07)

 

Cashing in on the tween dream (The Australian Age, 1/6/07)

2006

Middle School Girls Gone Wild (New York Times, 12/29/06)

 

What's Wrong With Cinderella? (New York Times, 12/26/06)

 

‘Tweens‘ becoming the new teens (Associated Press, 11/25/06)

 

Psychologists push back against market forces and products that sexualize young girls (APA Monitor, September 2006)

 

No Escaping Sexualization of Young Girls (LA Times, 8/25/06)

 

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)

 

Sexy styles beckon little girls  (Denver Post, 6/24/06)

 

Have the heirs of Barbie hit limit for risqué dolls? (5/25/06)

 

The Shrinking Childhood (Detroit Free Press, 5/13/06)

 

As Pop Music Seeks New Sales, the Pussycat Dolls Head to Toyland  (New York Times, 4/17/06)

 

Sexy media a siren call to promiscuity? (Reuters, 4/04/06)

 

Merchants of filth have worthy foe (NY Daily News, 4/3/06)

 

Backside of free speech (Boston Globe, 3/27/06)

 

Young Adult Fiction: Wild Things (New York Times Book Review, 3/12/06)

 

     

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