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jake

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Disney's Dave the Barbarian and Lizzie McGuire are a popular television shows which are featured as McDonald's Happy Meal toys that are popular among boys and girls. Products featuring characters from movies and television are heavily advertised on television to this audience. Outline the concerns that a critic of advertising would have about this practice.

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Advertising to children promotes superficiality and materialistic values. Children are easy prey for advertisers. Advertising to children promotes conflicts between children asking for products and parents having to say no. An additional, important final concern is that the television show is nothing more than a 30-minute commercial.

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