Stay Tuned: The Exploitation Of Children In Television Advertisements
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Across America in the homes of the rich, the not-so-rich, and in
poverty-stricken homes and tenements, as well as in schools and businesses,
sits advertisers' mass marketing tool, the television, usurping freedoms from
children and their parents and changing American culture. Virtually an entire
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.... today. These children, targeted by advertisers, are so vulnerable to
trickery, are so mentally and emotionally unable to understand reality because
they lack the cognitive reasoning skills needed to be skeptical of
advertisements. Children spend thousands of hours captivated by various
advertising tactics and do not understand their subtleties. Though advertisers
in America's free enterprise system are regulated because of societal pressures,
they also are protected in their rights under f ....
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