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Advertising watchdog displeased with Scholastic

by VÐGriesdoorn on February 11, 2009 - 0 comments

Boston-based ‘The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood’ has concluded that publishing group Scholastic unfairly uses its book club for peripheral advertising. When assessing the monthly fliers that the publisher distributes among the schools and pupils that participate in their book …

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