Chapter 12 is another chapter that really shows how history repeats itself. While this chapter spent a lot of time focusing on the censorship of movies and the radio. This can be seen nowadays with many parent groups fighting for the censorship of the internet and also many groups fighting to “protect children” on the internet because of all the evils it has.
This chapter also touched on teachers unions fighting for things that may not be a teacher’s cause.
I wasn’t surprised at all while reading this chapter about the amount of censorship that was put on American movies. America is known for being very big on censorship.
The chapter also touched on children as consumers and creating the teenage market. While baby boomers are still the largest consumer market in the United States. The tween and preteen age group is one of the biggest in the United States and it was very interesting to see how items began to be marketed solely for them. Even know some of the largest grossing cable television channels are ones that are geared towards teens (MTV) and children/ preteens (Disney and Nickelodeon)
