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• FTC: Movie Industry Fails at Protecting Kids from Violent Content

  
  Movie Mom — Authority: 505
  Last week, the Federal Trade Commission issued its seventh report in ten years on the marketing of violent media to children . While the movie industry is doing better at preventing children who are underage from buying tickets to R-rated films and DVDs, the report shows that there is still a long way to go, ...
  4 days ago

• Is There a Possibility the FCC Hasn’t Seen The Irony Here?

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 120
  Dec. 6, 2009 Samuel Johnson once said, “Our aspirations are our possibilities.” I love the limitless empowerment in the short phrase, so when I heard there was going to be a new online DIY craft show called ‘The Possibility Shop’ with Jim Henson’s name attached, I thought perhaps there would be a ...
  5 days ago

• The FTC Criticize Marketers of Violet Music, Movies and Video Games

  
  Hilltown Families — Authority: 134
  FTC Renews Call to Entertainment Industry to Curb Marketing of Violent Entertainment to ChildrenMarketers of violent music, movies, and video games can do more to restrict the promotion of these products to children, according to the seventh in a series of Federal Trade Commission reports on marketing violent ...
  1 week ago

• Chron’s Disease: Breaking the Bathroom Talk Taboo and Diet Key to Successful Treatment

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 142
  “Canada has among the highest rates of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis in the world,” says CCFC National President Victoria Prince. “Each November, we will celebrate the courage of more than 200,000 Canadian men, women and children living with these debilitating diseases and encourage Canadians to help ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hold a Commercial-Free Book Fair at Your School

  
  Hilltown Families — Authority: 134
  CCFC’s Guide to Commercial-Free Book FairsCampaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood writes: Are you tired of all the items for sale at your book fair that aren’t books–such as toys, video games, posters, and fashion accessories? Do you think that school book fairs should promote reading without promoting TV shows ...
  3 weeks ago

• FTC Researching PG-13 Marketing

  
  The Girl Revolution — Authority: 417
  The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) has finally agreed to research how companies market PG-13 advertising to preschoolers and elementary-aged children. The idea being that if your movie is PG-13 then you should not be marketing in Happy Meals, because those are generally purchased by small children. Nor should ...
  5 weeks ago

• Crohn’s and Colitis awareness video

  
  Crohns Colitis IBD and IBS info — Authority: 150
  Nine-year-old Landon Lafond of Medicine Hat, Alberta and Edmonton Oiler Fernando Pisani share their experiences with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis to help raise awareness for these chronic diseases. Amanda Holmes, who has had Crohn’s disease since she was 18, and her father – celebrity contractor Mike ...
  6 weeks ago

• Your Baby is No Einstein

  
  JETLawBlog: The Official Blog of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law — Authority: 124
  Disney’s Baby Einstein , the wildly popular brand of DVDs, CDs, and toys designed for infants, has been making headlines with its new refund program for DVDs purchased between June 5, 2004 and September 4, 2009. Protesters of Baby Einstein see this as Disney’s admission that the DVDs do not, in fact, make your ...
  6 weeks ago

• Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada – Awareness Video

  
  Crohns Colitis IBD and IBS info — Authority: 150
  Landon Lafond, a nine-year-old boy from Medicine Hat, Alberta, and Edmonton Oiler Fernando Pisani share their experiences with inflammatory bowel disease to help raise awareness for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada. Amanda Holmes and her father, Mike Holmes, introduce the video.
  6 weeks ago

• Disney Offers Parents Refunds on Baby Einstein Videos

  
  Hilltown Families — Authority: 134
  Disney Offers Refunds on Baby Einstein VideosCampaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood’s ongoing campaign to stop the false and deceptive marketing of baby videos has had an important success. We’ve persuaded the Walt Disney Company to offer a full refund to anyone who purchased a Baby Einstein DVD in the last ...
  6 weeks ago

• Post suitable for ages two and up

  
  inmedia Public Relations Inc. - High tech public relations — Authority: 115
  This past week, there’s been a lot of brouhaha in the media about Baby Einstein and the refund that Disney , the parent company of Baby Einstein, is offering. The New York Times called the refund offer “ a tacit admission that they did not increase infant intellect,” a damning admission and a triumphant ...
  6 weeks ago

• A Baby Einstein or Your Money Back

  
  FreeRangeKids — Authority: 518
  Hi Readers — Hope you saw this piece in The Times:  Disney is offering refunds to any parents who bought its Baby Einstein videos and found, to their shock, that watching shapes, songs, kids and colors on TV did not turn their babies  into instant geniuses the way a name like “Einstein”  might suggest.This ...
  6 weeks ago

• Exclusive: Anti-kid vid group ponders forcing name change for all Baby Einstein videos

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Kids and Money , Consumer Complaints Call it the E = MC squareoff. Bolstered by its successful anti-screen media campaign that led Baby Einstein to offer a refund for its kid videos , leaders at a Boston-Based non-profit are weighing whether to fight on -- and demand that Walt Disney Company drop ...
  6 weeks ago

• Disney Admits that Baby Einstein Does Not Help Babies

  
  Movie Mom — Authority: 505
  Disney, which had to drop the word "educational" from its marketing of Baby Einstein DVDs following complaints from the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC), has now had to back down further and offer a refund. The New York Times...
  6 weeks ago

• Baby Einstein Refund Offered

  
  Blippitt.com — Authority: 589
  We bloggers certainly know that the FTC is now cracking down, but we didn’t expect the first victim to be Disney. The company is now offering a full Baby Einstein refund of $15.99 to anyone who bought one of the DVDs between the dates of June 5, 2004 and Sept. 4, 2009. Consumers can also exchange the DVDs for Baby ...
  6 weeks ago

• Baby Einstein DVD customers are offered refund by Disney

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 487
  Disney is giving customers who purchased Baby Einstein DVDs their money back, in a victory claimed for parents by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, “who mistakenly thought baby videos were educational”. To all appeareances this seems to be an admission by Disney that they did not increase infant ...
  7 weeks ago

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