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In an age when the evening news can be spicier than a cable channel after midnight, most parents are concerned about their young children’s exposure to media coverage of the affair between President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, according to a telephone poll commissioned by Cramer-Krasselt in Chicago.
What surprised Carol Bruckman, senior vice president and director of research at the agency, was that 46 percent of polled parents have taken no steps to limit how much coverage of the president’s sexual escapades their 3- to 12-year-olds watch.