The latter changes include the growth of electronic media (particularly television), pressures of time and money (including the squeeze facing two-career families), and suburbanization, sprawl, and commuting.
By the way, Wetzel wasn't the first, and I'm not sure he would claim to be, to bring up the idea that preteens placed under a national television pressure-cooker to make millions should get a little something for their trouble.
The trouble is that, thanks to the power of satellite television, the pressure is even greater.
But the review stopped short of recommending any curbs on the volume of gambling adverts on television, despite pressure from campaign groups to limit their spread.
The association has now shifted its focus to Spanish television networks, pressuring them to agree to air children's programmes earlier.
Leaders of these groups said in interviews that they expected their efforts to include more phone calls urging conservative voters to tell their senators to vote no; new efforts to unearth embarrassing details from Mr. Hagel's past; and, potentially, a new round of television advertisements pressuring Democrats to drop their support for him.
Hence the group spent the summer furiously trying to spin the national media in order to shape what Matzzie calls "the narrative" about the troop surge, and last week it began running more than a million dollars' worth of television ads pressuring Republicans to abandon Bush and his effort to keep fighting the war.
A coalition of groups that advocate closing the Indian Point nuclear plant say that Gov. George E. Pataki's office recently held talks with its members concerning the plant and an ongoing review of its safety, prompting one group to withdraw a television ad pressuring the governor.
(Bohannan, who has a 1-year-old son with a heart defect, has appeared in television ads pressuring Heller to vote against repealing Obamacare).
From a young age, Raven says that television executives pressured her to lose weight, but she would proudly proclaim that she was "thick and fabulous".
Walt Disney Co.'s ABC television division, pressured by a downturn in the economy that is depressing advertiser spending, said Thursday that it was trimming its workforce by 5%, becoming the latest media company to make cutbacks.
