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Teletubbies
Can you ever be too young to shop? Not if you want to talk baby talk with Tinky, Winky, Dipsy, Laa Laa and Po. Is public television selling out by selling teletubbies to toddlers? Do one and two-year-olds comprise a niche market that needs to be filled?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readKenn Viselman: President and CEO of the Itsy Bitsy Entertainment Company Dr. David Walsh: Child psychologist and President of the National Institute on Media and the Family, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota Bill Swadley: A parent who works in the finance department of a children's television network. Tom Epstein: Vice President, Communications and Public Relations for PBS Walter Goodman: Television critic, New York Times Peggy Charren: Founder of Action for Children's Television, and a member of the Advisory Commission on the Public Interest Applications of Digital Broadcasting (AKA the Gore Commission) Gene Dal-Vecchio: Senior Partner and Director of Planning and Research at Ogilvy & Mather, and author of "Creating Ever Cool: A Marketers Guide to a Kid's Heart" (published late last year) Mike Smith: Acting Deputy Secretary for Education Secretary Richard Riley Adam Werbuch: President of the Sierra Club
topic: White House Opposition to Prop 227
