January 20th, 2006 - Kellogg and Viacom to Face Suit Over Ads for Children - New York Times
Kellogg and Viacom to Face Suit Over Ads for Children - New York Times. YES!
Of course, I think a partial answer to the problem is also “Don’t let your little kids watch TV.” If they didn’t have SpongeBob as a favorite character, they wouldn’t care what foods he was hawking. But the reality is that kids watch TV, so I’m all for the lawsuit.
Sadly, Maggie has started to become more interested in TV. She’ll watch it for up to a minute now. We can easily distract her…but we’re going to have to be more and more careful about waht we watch with her around. She’s a big fan of John Stewart, which isn’t a bad thing. ;-)