If you asked Peggy Charren, the Ralph Nader of children's television, why in 1992 she decided to disband Action for Children's Television (ACT), the influential advocacy group she founded some twenty-three years earlier, she would probably sum it up in four words: the Children's Television Act.

Perhaps never before in the history of the medium had a law held more potential for positive change. Sure, the limits it set on advertising (twelve minutes an hour weekdays, ten and a half minutes on weekends) often exceeded what the networks had been running, but at least ...

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