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The paranoia is running wild on the left.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/436952p-368077c.html

Hil frets chips will
be put in kids' brains 
 

 
BY MICHAEL McAULIFF
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU 
 
WASHINGTON - Madison Ave. ad execs are so bent on taking control of 
America's children, they'd put computer chips in kids' brains if they 
could, Sen. Hillary Clinton said yesterday.
Saying advertisers have found so many new ways to get at kids through 
video games and the Internet, Clinton warned that we're verging on a 
society out of a grim science fiction novel.

"At the rate that technology is advancing, people will be implanting 
chips in our children to advertise directly into their brains and tell 
them what kind of products to buy," Clinton said at the Kaiser Family 
Foundation.

The New York Democrat said the country was performing a "massive 
experiment" on kids who average more than six hours a day with media and 
advertising, soaking it up through TV, computers, games and iPods. She 
said the fastest growing advertising market is the 6- and under set, and 
that children's health is already being hurt by products like Camel's 
candy-flavored cigarettes and junk food sold with tips for video games - 
used to sell more junk food.

"People are spending billions and billions of dollars enticing children 
basically to be obsessed with food," she said. "These foods are almost 
universally unhealthy." Clinton has offered legislation to study the 
effects of the "advertising-saturated, media-intense" world on kids.

Robert Thompson, a professor of pop culture at Syracuse University, said 
Clinton and other politicians like to attack advertising because it's 
easier than trying to ban bad food products or fund broad education 
programs.

"To go after advertising really makes no sense," he said. "It's sort of 
a backdoor tack, but it's the safer one politically." 




 
Jeff

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