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Revisiting Time Magazine’s “Captive Audience: Has Advertising in School Gone Too Far?” (2010)

January 22, 2012
Revisiting Time Magazine’s “Captive Audience: Has Advertising in School Gone Too Far?” (2010)

“Channel One News, an in-school TV network launched in 1990 and used in about 8,000 U.S. middle and high schools, has long been a target of criticism because its 12-minute broadcasts include ads. A study published in 2006 in Pediatrics found that on average, students remember more ads from the broadcasts than news stories.”...
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