The Sinister Business of Advertising to Kids

The Gist

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4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Today's Gist is a special New Haven hotel room dispatch. Mike shares an excerpt from the New Haven ideas festival event "Thinking About Sports." He was a panelist there alongside legendary sportswriter and NPR commentator Frank Deford, poet Elizabeth Alexander, and author Nicholas Dawidoff. Also in today's show, we ask Dartmouth professor of pediatrics James D. Sargent about McDonald's new happy meal branding, and how other countries limit marketing to young children. In today's Spiel, some ideas about ideas festivals. Get The Gist by email as soon as it's available: slate.com/GistEmail Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slate…id873667927?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.4	It's Friday, June 20, 2014. From Slate, it's the GIST I'm Mike Pasca. And they had been
0:57.8	Fitzgerald Sunk in Lake Superior. I got it. I got your calls. I got your emails. I got
1:02.7	your Facebook messages. Your tweets. That one regrettable instance of podcast lists
1:06.5	in our self-imulation unnecessary. Step too far.
1:09.4	So I did screw that one up and yesterday should be all. I said that the Edmund Fitzgerald
1:13.5	Sunk in Lake Michigan, not Lake Superior. Perhaps in fact Lake Michigan and Huron and
1:18.4	Yury and Ontario actually do give up their dead. It is not said about them that they don't
1:23.3	give up their dead. That is said right there in the song about Lake Superior. And that's
1:27.2	where the boat sank. So I am chasing it. Got it noted.
1:31.8	In other transportation news, Harley Davidson is debuting an electric motorcycle. The live
1:38.2	wire will be a game changer for sure. There is no reason why motorcyclists wouldn't want
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