1. Advertisement to Youths in America
Therefore children are an unfair market and the public expects protection on a government level. ACT petitioned the FCC to ban all advertisements directed towards children eight and under. Despite receiving more than 100,000 letters in support of ACT's petition, the FCC did not comply with the request. ... In 1984, ACT responded to the proliferation of program length commercials by filing a complaint to the FCC. ... It seems as if our government valued the protection of private enterprises (fast-food industries) more than the protection of children from advertisements when the FCC reinsta...
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