Hooray!
Prescription drug ads appear to have been removed from Channel One’s children’s web site.
I never received a reply from Dr. Paul Folkemer, Channel One’s VP of Education who is usually very involved in Channel One’s advertising decisions. It must be with great reluctance that the company pulled these ads. These ads for two powerful, prescription acne medicines represented much needed revenue for this struggling company.
I wrote Dr. Folkemer, who laughingly calls himself "Channel One’s child advocate,"that he would ultimately be forced to end these potentially dangerous and unethical ads and sure enough he had to.
Heaven knows what Dr. Folkemer and his band of marketing geniuses will start advertising to make up for the prescription drug ad shortfall.
