The mission of Commercial Alert is "to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere, and to prevent it from exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental integrity and democracy".
commercial, alert, project, public, citizen, consumer, advocacy, profit, organization, opposes, advertising, children, commercialization, culture, education, government, works, issues, such, commercialism, consumerism, product, placement, native, advertising, . Commercial Alert is a project of Public Citizen a consumer advocacy non profit organization Commercial Alert opposes advertising to children and the commercialization of culture education and government It works on issues such as commercialism consumerism product placement native advertising advertising in schools ad creep and privacy It works to reduce the negative impacts of advertising on public health such as obesity It was co founded in 1999 by prominent consumer advocate Ralph Nader The mission of Commercial Alert is to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere and to prevent it from exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family community environmental integrity and democracy In 2001 it complained to the Federal Trade Commission that Internet search engines were failing to unambiguously label paid results as advertising 1 2 3 In 2005 the Federal Trade Commission rejected a request by Commercial Alert to identify product placement in television programs as advertising 4 In 2007 Commercial Alert criticized Jack Daniels sponsorship of the television series Mad Men 5 References edit Kopytoff Verne June 29 2002 Sites told to fess up Search results often advertisers San Francisco Chronicle Retrieved 7 March 2010 Associated Press July 16 2001 Search engines accused of deceptive advertising USA Today Retrieved 7 March 2010 Salkever Alex August 6 2001 The Search Engines Little Secret Business Week Archived from the original on August 11 2001 Retrieved 7 March 2010 Mayer Caroline E February 11 2005 FTC Rejects Ad Labeling on TV Washington Post pp E04 Retrieved 7 March 2010 Schiller Gail June 21 2007 Watchdog irked by booze sex link on TV drama Reuters Hollywood Reporter Retrieved 7 March 2010 External links editCommercial Alert nbsp This culture related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This article related to a non profit organization is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Commercial Alert amp oldid 1147937442, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
