Consumer advocate Ralph Nader last week urged PBS and Children's Television Workshop not to participate in a New York conference on marketing to children.(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, February, 2000

Consumer advocate Ralph Nader last week urged PBS and Children's Television Workshop not to participate in a New York conference on marketing to children. "It would be a betrayal of your audience of thousands of vulnerable and unsuspecting children for CTW [and PBS] to participate in this conference, and we ask you not to do so," Nader wrote in a letter sent to both services.

"This conference is a form of commercial child molestation." Representatives from the Children's Television Workshop, producer of Sesame Street, responded that they still plan to attend the conference, called "Play-Time, Snack-Time, Tot-Time: Targeting Preschoolers and Their Parents." "It is precisely because of our 'commitment to the betterment of children' that we participate in...