AHC & WI: Stricter regulations on advertising/less advertising to children

Just as it says, I want YOU to find a way to ad more strict regulations on advertising in the US. In particular I want to know how the could be less marketing towards children?

Maybe if advertising was weaker early on? Maybe if Walt Disney is enlisted into WW1 and gets killed in action, because I believe his cartoons were more marketed towards children so...no precedent?

And not just commercial advertising, advertising in tv shows, movies, basically advertising in all media.

Bonus points if the following commodities are made illegal to advertise:
Prescription Drugs
Food and Restaurants
Alcoholic Drinks
Cigarettes
 
There'd be a lot less children's cartoons. Most of them were essentially expensive marketing campaigns. Hasbro bankrolled all of their TV shows in the 80s (Transformers, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Jem, etc.), it was labeled as "advertising" in the budget!

Pop culture as we know it would be radically altered. I don't think Disney being killed would also mean children's cartoons wouldn't take off either, there were plenty of other animators at the time. Not sure how those commodities would get banned either.
 
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There'd be a lot less children's cartoons. Most of them were essentially expensive marketing campaigns. Hasbro bankrolled all of their TV shows in the 80s (Transformers, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Jem, etc.), it was labeled as "advertising" in the budget!

Pop culture as we know it would be radically altered.

I remember hearing from somewhere that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were just a toy line that got its own show based off of the toys. TMNT probably wouldn't exist either.

But what I was aiming for was less advertising in general. Commercials that advertise Prescription drugs irritate me.

If you or anyone else could tell me how there could be more strict regulations on advertising, then it could be the way to an interesting cultural POD...
 
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You probably need to get rid of Reagan.

Right. Reagan's policy of deregulation gutted a lot of federal agencies, including ones that . But he isn't the start of it. Originally, in the early days of advertisements marketers never paid any mind to what children wanted because they weren't really a viable market.

I think an increase in marketing towards children occurs more in the 60's to 70's, but I want it so marketers still believe that children aren't a viable audience to advertisments.

...What kind of legislation could there be to heavily limit the amounts of advertisments on televison that market alcohol, cigarettes, food, restaurants and prescription drugs?

*Note: Cigarettes don't seem to be advertised as directly as they used to, so I think the rest of these "commodities" could get banned from being advertised. Just need to know how it could be done...
 
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question: I heard (but I"m not american and I may be wrong) that some schools in the USa have TV ans so on and that people play adds on those TV.

Seen from another country this sounds incredibly insane (and "not sane") as if there is one thing that school should do it to warn people against adds.

Can we have more details on the topic?
 
I remember hearing from somewhere that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were just a toy line that got its own show based off of the toys. TMNT probably wouldn't exist either.

That's not true. TMNT was originally a darkly satirical and very adult comic book that eventually came to the attention of Playmates and CBS.
 
Advertising in its almost modern form existed since at least the 1890s with the mass consumption of newspapers which sold ad space to make money. It just kept continuing from there with each new form of mass media getting added. I remember seeing those old ads for cocaine tooth ache pills in history class which were a thing before the 1900s so this goes back before then. Same thing with really old Coke ads.
 
question: I heard (but I"m not american and I may be wrong) that some schools in the USa have TV ans so on and that people play adds on those TV.

Seen from another country this sounds incredibly insane (and "not sane") as if there is one thing that school should do it to warn people against adds.

Can we have more details on the topic?

I believe what you refer to is Channel One news (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_One_News) (http://www.channelone.com/)

A television program that wasn't at all for educational purposes, instead it was for corporations to advertise directly to children. Things like junkfood, soft drinks, movies, sensational crap.

Its illegal in several states now, but not all of them.
 
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