Instead, it turned out that the article was really about a group of children's health advocates who believed liquor and tobacco advertisers were deliberately preying on kids online. But unfortunately for those interested in empirical evidence, it turned out that the Center had merely inferred the influence of said sites on the under-21 crowd because, well, some of them had games. Unfortunately, the CME apparently didn't bother to measure how many children actually visit the sites, let alone whether they had been influenced by them. Maybe that's why the competition down at The Wall Street Journal chose to bury their story about the study deep in the second section. Join the HotWired Network, it's free .
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