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

Boston Globe, July 14, 2008

 

BusRadio gains industry ratings, criticism for pushing ads on kids

Boston Herald, July 8, 2008

 

To Build a Young-Adult Crowd, ABC Family Gets More Physical

New York Times, June 28, 2008

 

Product Placement On TV Targeted

Washington Post, June 27, 2008

 

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

USA Today, June 25, 2008

 

FCC Is Urged To Clamp Down On Product Placement

Marketing Daily, June 20, 2008

 

Coalition Urges FCC to Adopt Product Placement Rules

Brandweek, June 20, 2008

 

Watch Dogs Warn FCC about Trojan Horse Ads

Broadcasting & Cable, June 19, 2008

 

The power of a make-believe world

Boston Globe, 6/3/08

 

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

 

Commercial side of school book fairs prompts concerns (Natick Bulletin, 5/15/08)

 

MPAA Says It Won't Block Marketers' Movie Promo Plans (Advertising Age, 5/16/08)

 

BabyTV and BabyFirstTV target the diaper set (International Herald Tribune, 5/18/08)

 

Kids should spend more time playing (The Wichita Eagle, 5/15/08)

 

Commercials cause concern in the virtual Barbie world (Financial Times, 5/2/08)

 

Coalition Asks BK to Pull Toy Premiums (Promo Magazines, 4/29/08)

 

Group Asks Burger King To Pull 'Iron Man' Kids' Meal Toy (MediaPost, 4/25/08)

 

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

 

Abercrombie & Fitch ads hit (Boston Herald, 3/13/08)

 

Children's Hospital in Hot Water Over Corporate Sponsorships (Advertising Age, 3/12/08)

 

Cut Abercrombie name from ER, advocates say (AP, 3/11/08)

 

When a Corporate Donation Raises Protests (New York Times, 3/12/08)

 

Is TV to blame for fat epidemic? (Toronto Star, 3/8/08)

 

Hollywood Will Help to Police PG-13 TV Ads (Broadcasting & Cable, 3/4/08)

 

Don't hold children hostage to ads (Island Packet, 3/2/08)

 

Parents Group Slams Producers for Marketing PG-13 Films to Kids (Brandweek, 1/17/08)

 

McDonald's Pulls Ads From Florida Report Cards (Advertising Age, 1/18/08)

 

McDonald's drops report card pitches (Orlando Sentinel, 1/18/08)

 

McDonald's was right to pull plug on Happy Meals promotion (Orlando Sentinel, 1/21/08)

 

A Virtual Popularity Contest (Washington Post, 2/19/08)

 

Parents’ beef with McDonald’s ends Happy Meal promo (The Boston Herald, 1/18/08)

 

McDonald’s Ending Promotion on Jackets of Children’s Report Cards (New York Times 1/18/08)

 

School Buses Latest Victim of Ad Creep (Brandweek, 2/4/08)

 

McDonald’s Ending Promotion on Jackets of Children’s Report Cards (New York Times 1/18/08)

 

Parents Group Slams Producers for Marketing PG-13 Films to Kids (Brandweek, 1/17/08)

 

FTC: Review Movie Marketing to Kids (Associated Press, 1/9/08)

2007

Web Playgrounds of the Very Young (New York Times, 12/31/07)

 

BusRadio Tames Raunchy Music (12/27/07)

 

Lessons of 'Snowpeople' not cool (Marketplace, 12/18/07)

 

Ads on Webkinz draw criticism (New Jersey Star-Ledger, 12/17/07)

 

Born to Shop: How Marketers Brainwash Babies (Alternet, 12/13/07)

 

Shift Away From Ad-Free Has a Price (New York Times, 12/13/07)

 

Webkinz Takes Heat For Taking Advertising (MediaPost, 12/14/07)

 

Advocates Slam Webkinz for Online Ads (Adweek, 12/14/07)

 

Guess Who's Seeing Web Traffic Soar: Kraft and Co. (Advertising Age, 12/10/07)

 

Heidi Klum In The Valley Of The (Star)Dolls (Brandweek, 12/10/07)

 

Food-for-grades prize criticized (Chicago Tribune, 12/7/07)

 

School Report Cards Offer Happy Meals (ABC News, 12/8/07)

 

McDonald’s offers US children free fast food for good schoolwork (London Times, 12/7/08)

 

FTC Ends Brainy-Baby Video Investigation (The Associated Press, 12/6/07)

 

Seminole students get McDonald's bonus on report cards (Orlando Sentinel, 12/6/07)

 

Straight A's, With a Burger as a Prize (New York Times, 12/6/07)

 

CCFC Blasts McDonald's For Report Card Advertising (MediaPost, 12/6/07)

 

McD's Report Card Ads Draw Fire (Adweek, 12/5/07)

 

Child advocacy group upset over McDonald’s ads on report cards (Associated Press, 12/5/07)

 

McD's Newest Ad Platform: Report Cards (Advertising Age, 12/5/07)

 

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

 

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

 

Stores use lure of children's literature (Boston Herald, 11/23/07)

 

Dispute over push to get social Web sites in classroom (Union Leader Correspondent, 11/23/07)

 

Educators weigh merits of social network sites (LA Times, 11/19/07)

 

Hard to find sanctuary from $17 billion in marketing to kids (National Catholic Reporter, 11/16/07)

 

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

 

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

 

Nick Rethinks Partnerships To Promote SpongeBob To Kids (Brandweek, 10/29/07)

 

Goodbye treats, hello tricks (Toronto Sun, 10/20/07)

 

Disney wields its marketing magic (Denver Post, 10/19/07)

 

Babes in BrandLand (Brandweek, 10/17/07)

 

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

 

How did board allow BusRadio onboard? (Union Tribune, 10/11/07)

 

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

 

Palm Beach County schools consider BusRadio (South Florida Sun Sentinel, 10/10/07)

 

Wishful thinking: DVDs bring out baby geniuses (Washington Post, 10/9/07)

 

Use Of Play Plastic In Game Of Life Divides Experts (The Courant, 10/4/07)

 

Kids seem to respond to licensing of product (AP, 8/31/07)

 

FTC Issues Subpoenas to Food Marketers (Adweek, 8/10/07)

 

Parents tricked by Baby Einstein (Brisbane Times, 8/6/07)

 

Playground Networking, Now Online  (Washington Post, 8/3/07)

 

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

 

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

 

Robbing the Cradle? If Marketers Get Their Way, That Bundle of Joy Can Cost a Bundle (Knowledge@Wharton, 7/25/07)

 

Limiting Ads of Junk Food to Children (New York Times, 7/18/07)

Watching Food Ads on TV May Program Kids to Overeat (Wall Street Journal 7/10/07)

 

Violent shows aim toys at little kids (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, 7/10/07)

 

Marketing health (San Francisco Chronicle, 6/22/07)

 

Kellogg Agrees to Raise Nutrition of Kids' Food  (Associated Press, 6/14/07)

 

If Other Marketers Follow Suit, More Than $1 Billion in Spending May Be in Limbo (AdAge.com, 6/14/07)

 

Kellogg Agrees to Curb Marketing of Foods to Children (New York Times, 6/14/07)

 

P.V. ponders Bus Radio, billed as alternative to raunchy drive-time fare (Santa Cruz Sentinel, 6/12/07)

 

Women take their fight against school ads to Boston (Worcester Star-Telegram, 5/31/07)

 

Say Buy-Buy: Psychology professor says subtle marketers are selling kids, and their parents, a lot of junk (Winston-Salem Journal, 5/31/07)

 

Video Game Ads (CBS 3.com, 5/30/07)

 

Louisville school board drops proposal for bus radios (Louisville Courier-Journal, 5/22/07)

 

Fighting obesity, but fronting for junk food (Boston Globe, 5/21/07)

 

How Many Brands Do Young Children Recognize? (wcco.com, 5/14/07)

 

The Hard Sell: Marketing to Kids (CBS News, 5/14/07)

 

More toddlers have own TVs, study finds
 

20% of children under age 3 have a set in bedroom (Chicago Tribune, 5/7/07)

 

Kellogg Agrees to Raise Nutrition of Kids' Food  (Associated Press, 6/14/07)

 

Shrek shills dietary dreck -- dump him (Chicago Sun Times, 4/30/07)

 

Advocacy Group: Drop Shrek From Anti-Obesity Ads (AP, 4/26/07)

 

Nashua Board tunes in to Bus Radio (Nashua Telegraph, 4/19/07)

 

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

 

Marketing play: Game of Life really does take Visa  (USA Today, 3/8/07)

 

Critics target Pizza Hut BOOKIt! Program (AP, 3/2/07)

 

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)

 

Diaper Demographic:  TV, Video Programming for the Under-2 Market Grows Despite Lack of Clear Educational Benefit (Washington Post, 2/24/07)

 

Envy, Anxiety, Secrecy, Taboos: The Subject Must Be Money (New York Times, 2/03/07)

 

CCFC to President Bush:  Luring Babies to Screens is Not Heroic Watching television won't turn babies into Einsteins (Concord Monitor, 1/25/07)

 

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

2006

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)

 

McDonald's trying a new play on PlayPlace (Chicago Tribune, 12/2/06)

 

Car makers direct more ads at kids (Wall St. Journal, 11/9/06)

 

A Mr. Rogers for a new age (Boston Globe, 10/26/06)

 

New Disney Rules Limit Character Use in Kids' Foods (Television Week, 10/17/06)

 

Child protection advocates hit at Wal-Mart (Financial Times, 10/5/06)

 

Critics riled that teen book plugs makeup (Hartford Courant, 10/1/06)

 

Study: Advertisements for high-fat foods permeate TV targeting toddlers (AP, 9/30/06)

 

Schools stall BusRadio (Taunton Gazette, 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)

 

TV channel for babies? Pediatricians say turn it off (SF Chronicle, 9/11/06)

 

What can parents do? (Los Angeles Daily News, 8/24/06)

 

Procter & Gamble Takes Tampax Into the Classroom (Brandweek, 8/14/06)

 

Though firm sees a winner in 'Baby Badger' DVD, critics throw a flag (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8/11/06)

 

For Toddlers, a World Laden with Advertising (NPR.org, 7/31/06)

 

Imprinting Infants (Hartford Courant, 7/24/06)

 

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)

 

Marketers pursue kids ad nauseam (Chicago Sun-Times, 6/14/06)

 

Mansfield pulls plug on Bus Radio (Sun Chronicle, 6/5/06)

 

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

 

Kaiser Tallies Kids' TV Hours (5/24/06)

 

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

 

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)

 

Group Sues Video Firms On Tot-Learning Claims (Washington Post, 5/2/06)

 

Baby videos deceptive, advocacy group argues (Boston Globe, 5/2/06)

 

Stage Prop for the Today how or What’s Become of Relevant Information Dissemination for Parent (Gloria DeGaetano, 4/3/06)

 

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)

 

Selling Junk Food to Toddlers (New York Times, 2/23/06)

 

Hot new market for cellphones: young kids (Seattle Times, 2/23/06)

 

Parents, teachers deal with trend of aggressive marketing to kids (Atlanta Journal Constitution, 2/19/06)

 

Kids And Neopets: Who's Getting Fed? (CBS.com, 2/9/06)

 

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)

 

Suing the Pants Off SpongeBob (Alternet, 1/31/06)

 

When 'free' merchandise isn't; lawsuit targets Scholastic (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1/31/06)

 

SpongeBob, Kellogg Get The Big Squeeze (Brandweek, 1/24/05)