TITLE

Entertainment's message: `Buy me!'

AUTHOR(S)
Goodale, Gloria
PUB. DATE
June 1998
SOURCE
Christian Science Monitor;6/12/98, Vol. 90 Issue 138, pB1
SOURCE TYPE
Newspaper
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Focuses on the way in which entertainment companies market products to children. The cost of commercializing activities and education; Assertion that our culture is driven not by wise elders but by market-driven media conglomerates that see every entity as a potential for profit; Entertainment companies that tie-in merchandise into popular media; Examples of the Disney Co. and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
ACCESSION #
709572

Tags: MARKETING -- Social aspects

 

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