Word: toye
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...children' s TV overloaded with commercials and toy tie- ins? Under pressure from critics, the FCC may set some limits...
...seldom have they had so much to complain about. A typical afternoon of kidvid these days can be a mind-numbing march of cartoon superheroes like He-Man, BraveStarr and the Defenders of the Earth. Many shows, from The Transformers to Pound Puppies, are based on hot-selling toys and seem intended to shuffle kids straight from the TV set into the toy store. Worst of all in the critics' view, under the deregulatory aegis of the Reagan Administration, the Federal Communications Commission has seemed little inclined to do anything about the situation...
...most controversial area, however, is toy-inspired shows, which are criticized by children's TV activists as little more than program-length commercials. "Where is it written that Mattel should control the decision making in programming for children's TV?" says Peggy Charren, president of Action for Children's Television, the watchdog group based in Cambridge, Mass. "People who want to produce children's programs with something to say instead of something to sell are zapped out of the system...
...adventure, enables children to play along at certain points by shooting at villains on-screen with a special Power Jet weapon (cost: $30 to $40). An electronic signal responds to each "hit" and tots up the . player's score. Charren argues that by encouraging children to buy an expensive toy to participate, such shows unfairly divide the young audience into "the haves and the have-nots...
...Fifteen minutes later and ten miles away, another driver was shot in the head and killed. Across the state line in St. Louis County, Mo., last week, two people reported being fired upon by other drivers. In separate cases, Illinois police arrested several people who terrorized drivers with toy guns. Said State Police Sergeant Dave Jung: "Our troopers carry real guns, and we're not going to tolerate this anymore." In California numerous police patrols at rush hour choked off last summer's highway fusillade. The Los Angeles County sheriff's department estimates that 43 shooting incidents have occurred since...