Starving Children
By Jeffry Fawcett, April 3, 2007 in the Editorials blog
Food manufacturers spend $10 billion each year for “advertising that targets children.” Targets. Our children are targets. Of course, you and I are targets too, but that’s another story.
A lot of that money shows up in TV advertising. Last week the Kaiser Family Foundation released a report on how much children are exposed to food advertising on television. This is an easy punching bag to take a swipe at so I won’t linger. Just a few statistics from the report. [Read more…]