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- <title>
- Mar. 16, 1992: Business Notes:Marketing
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 16, 1992 Jay Leno
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 53
- Business Notes
- MARKETING
- Battle for Young Minds
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- <p> First came protests against Joe Camel, a raffish advertising
- character that has attracted teenagers to Camel cigarettes. Now
- furious grownups are opening new fronts in the wars for dollars
- and youthful minds. Incensed by plans for a Fox network cartoon
- series that would star Chester Cheetah, a pitchman for
- Frito-Lay's Chee-tos snacks, Action for Children's Television
- and six other groups last week asked the FCC to bar the
- program. While Fox said it will not show spots for Chee-tos
- during the series, ACT said the program itself would amount to
- a commercial and would violate FCC rules that require the strict
- separation of advertising and entertainment fare.
- </p>
- <p> The dispute flared shortly after Kenner Products, which
- makes the Savage Mondo Blitzers line of action toys, said it
- will bow to protests against the gross-out figures by changing
- some of their names. Although such characters as Barf Bucket,
- Snot Shot and Bad Fart will remain on store shelves, they could
- become less irritating to parental ears.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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