Seeing red rather than tickled pink

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The Cartoon Network’s latest news is anything but fun. The goal of its Tickle U lineup, a set of programs aimed at preschoolers, is to teach youngsters how to laugh. Under this thinking, humor is a skill babies and toddlers are unable to learn on their own without TV. We don’t buy it. Nor does the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, which thinks marketers are simply trying to get access to America’s babies before they hit the classroom.

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