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also coincides with advertising deregulation, the advent of ads directed at children during the first reagan administration

• chrisco255 8y ago
  Source? Also coincides with the advent of cable television.
  • ghaff 8y ago
    I remember plenty of commercials for cereal during my childhood which significantly predated the 1980s. The idea that kids didn't widely eat Frosted Flakes, Lucky Charms, Trix, etc. etc. is simply counterfactual. I I suspect there are many reasons for increased obesity including more fast food, more (large) soda consumption, less physical play activity, etc. Simply blaming advertising, farm subsidies, or whatever may make people feel that they've identified an external bogeyman but it's not as simple as that.
  • nyolfen 8y ago
    https://www.awn.com/animationworld/dr-toon-when-reagan-met-optimus-prime https://www.awn.com/animationworld/dr-toon-when-reagan-met-o...
    • chrisco255 8y ago
      This is an interesting take on an inevitable event in television history. Deregulation was bound to happen as the triopoly held by ABC, CBS, and NBC began to break up with the advent of cable TV. Furthermore I have very many fond memories of children's television in the 80s and 90s, and commercialized or not, like the Ninja Turtles, Transformers, Hot Wheels, Captain N, etc...it was very enjoyable to me and I would hate for some bureaucrat to dictate what was and wasn't acceptable. Markets do that just fine when choice is available. It would be even harder to enforce such a thing in the age of the internet.