Radio West: Juliet Schor -- The Commercialized Child

Juliet Schor -- The Commercialized Child
Radio West (Public Radio International/The University of Ohio)
Host: David Fabrizio



The writer and cultural observer Juliet Schor joins Doug to talk about how the advertising industry is targeting children. Schor says ads aimed at kids are everywhere these days. One writer said the marketing effort is turning young people into oversexed, status-obsessed, attention deficient little consumers. Schor talks about the trend, and what it means to have commercialized children.

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