ARTICLES / ADVERTISING: We are coming for your children - Source: The Guardian, UK

We are coming for your children

Commercials for junk food are being banned on children's television. For campaigners, this is just the first victory in a war against advertising to youngsters. But those whose job it is to sell sweets, toys and fizzy drinks will not give up without a fight. Helen Pidd joins them as they move into a new battlefield - the Internet ...

 

FULL ARTICLE AT http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2138070,00.html

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