Diskussionen om reklam riktad mot barn är stor i USA, fr a handlar det om reklam för snabbmat (läs en artikel av mig på bold.se). Utifrån en hearing om framtiden skriver Media Riff:

“Should a ban on children’s advertising happen – hey, anything’s possible these days – it would transform the kids TV advertising marketplace in much the same way the tobacco ad restrictions impacted the magazine advertising marketplace. “
“And while much of the focus so far has been on childhood obesity, we fully expect the next line of fire to hit childhood anorexia and bulimia. Meaning? Well, any host of product categories ranging from toy figures like Barbie dolls to fashion, accessories, movies and the music industry, all of which frequently reinforce images of underweight body types.”