John Warner reviews Alissa Quart's Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers in yesterday's Morning News. He makes alot of interesting points, mostly based on his commercial youth, including Gordon Gekko's mantra. I found this to be most true:
Ironically, the rise in consumerism embraced by the contemporary right has had a corrosive effect on the "family values" and issues of morality that conservatives claim to embrace. Wal-Mart recently moved to stop distributing consumerist bibles like Maxim and FHM in their stores because they may improperly expose youngsters to sexual images, but they aren't thinking twice about selling lipstick and blush to a ten-year-old.Seems to me like this is more of a comment on today's common parenting habits more than branding.