Propaganda touting the consumption of junk food is now commonplace in the nation's schools.
About 12,000 schools show Primedia s Channel One, an in-school marketing program disguised as a news show, which features a parade of ads for junk food and soda pop to a contractually obligated captive audience of about eight million school children. This propaganda campaign for bad nutrition is intensifying. Soda pop is an example. According to Channel One's Teen Fact Book 2000, schools sell soda pop as their top beverage product, and the top food products sold are potato chips, tortilla chips and cookies. They are urged by these ads to buy these products directly themselves or, if they are too young, to nag their parents.