Our children are growing up in a toxic cultural environment, one made more toxic by advertising. No one can escape it, just as no one can escape air pollution or pesticides in our food […] the world is fast becoming a global marketplace controlled not by individual governments but by transnational conglomerates interested only in profit. As we Americans export our economic system and our lifestyle, we also export the addictions, diseases, and psychological problems associated with it – our hazardous cultural environment. Jean Kilbourne, social theorist, film maker, author, Can't Buy My Love. How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel, Free Press, 2. November 2000

Some of the most talented and creative people in the world are dedicated to this work, indeed, the most skillful propagandists of our time are not working for dictators, they are certainly not working exclusively for the Democratic party or the Republican either. They are working for Foote, Cone & Belding, Ogilvy & Mather, and DDB Needham Worldwide. Jean Kilbourne, social theorist, film maker, author, Can't Buy My Love. How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel, Free Press, 2. November 2000

Advertising tells us that the way to happiness is through the consumption of objects. The immense accumulation of commodities has to be sold, and it is sold through the story of goods bringing happiness. Satvinder "Sut" Jhally (*1955) professor of communication, University of Massachusetts Amherst, cultural studies scholar in advertising, media, and consumption

Advertising is designed to generate an inner sense of conflict with the self. Bernard McGrave PhD

Children’s television and MTV, in fact, are the easiest places to launch counterculture missiles. The more harmless or inane the forum, the more unsuspecting the audience. Douglas Rushkoff, Media Virus

You don't understand […] It's not about money. […] It's about power and influence. Michael Ovitz, Disney Marketing Executive, interview with Mike Rosenfield

No one's really worrying about what it's (advertising to children) teaching impressionable youth. Hey, I'm in the business of convincing people to buy things they don't need. Advertising Executive, quoted from Business Week, 11. August 1997

Video presentation by Sut Jhally, professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Advertising & the End of the World, DVD clip presented by media education foundation, 5:22 minutes duration, produced 1997
Video presentation by Jean Kilbourne, social theorist, Killing Us Softly 3 Advertising's Image of Women, presented by Media Education Foundation, Google video, 34:23 minutes duration, posted 29. April 2006
Audio interview with Diane Levin, Ph.D., co-author of So Sexy So Soon, So Sexy So Soon, presented by web radio program Talk to Tara, host Tara, MP3, 30:00 minutes duration, 2008
TV interview with Jean Kilbourne, social theorist, and Diane Levin Ph.D., authors of So Sexy So Soon, So Sexy So Soon, presented by Media Education Foundation, TV program TODAY, YouTube film, aired 6. August 2008, 5:52 minutes duration, posted 12. August 2008
Video / audio presentation by Jean Kilbourne, social theorist, writer and Diane Levin Ph.D., writer, So Sexy So Soon. The New Sexualized Childhood, presented by WGBH Forum Network, Free Lecture Videos, location Simmons College, 62:09 minutes duration, 20. November 2008