Media Minutes for August 22, 2008
Producer: Stevie Converse and Candace Clement
Length: 5:04

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To raise healthy, creative, thinking children, we need to allow them to grow in a non-commercialized culture. And as the number of foreign news bureaus decreases, Americans are receiving an increasingly distorted view of the world.

Related Links

Keeping Imagination Alive in a Commercialized World

• Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood

Why Do Americans Know Less than Ever About the World?

• Alisa Miller’s Presentation at the TED conference

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