The Sinister Business of Advertising to Kids

The Gist explores how McDonald’s and other companies market to children, and America’s evolving feelings about soccer.

By Mike Pesca

Listen to Episode 33 of Slate’s The Gist:

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Today’s The Gist is a special New Haven hotel room dispatch. Mike shares an excerpt from the New Haven ideas festival event “Thinking About Sports.” He was a panelist there alongside legendary sportswriter and NPR commentator Frank Deford, poet Elizabeth Alexander, and author Nicholas Dawidoff. Also in today’s show, we ask Dartmouth professor of pediatrics James D. Sargent about McDonald’s new happy meal branding, and how other countries limit marketing to young children. In today’s Spiel, some ideas about ideas festivals.