Word: charren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...findings of the report are being applauded by a number of organizations that have long sought a reduction in television violence. Says Peggy Charren, president of Action for Children's Television: "The report should help parents understand that that box in the living room is not necessarily a friend of the family...
...together, are not sexually suggestive. Says Jack Forcelledo, Remco's executive vice president: "We just show little girls playing with the product in the home. Our message is that you put it on and wash it off." All the same, the commercials rankle many consumer activists. Says Peggy Charren, president of Action for Children's Television: "The four-year-olds are going to be taught that it's appropriate for them to wear makeup. It's another way to get children to spend money on something useless and unnecessary...
...violence. He questions the use of boycotts when there are other remedies available-for example, share holder proposals at annual meetings to ban company advertisements on excessively violent shows. One such N.C.C. petition succeeded, Fore said, in persuading General Mills executives to adopt the policy voluntarily. Peggy Charren of Newtonville, Mass., a Boston suburb, is head of Action for Children's Television, which has successfully lobbied for better juvenile programming. Her group opposes the coalition's crusade, she says, "because ACT believes that the Moral Majority is not out to improve children's television but rather...