Source: CENTER FOR CONSUMER FREEDOM, 10/18/11

While some newspapers would like you to take any public-health scold with an M.D. at his word, a recent Tampa Tribune editorial on the federal Interagency Working Group advertising standards is far more sensible. Calling the push for new guidelines “a devastating statement about Washington's overreach,” the Tribune editors note correctly that “marketing can't make parents buy the products.” Tell that to the scolds who want to take toys out of Happy Meals.

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