Guess which one of these families had more exposure to the media at an early age:
When I was a kid, I would watch the July 4 fireworks in the park with neighbors across the street. One year, it rained, and the fireworks were canceled. To pass the time, one of the family's seven kids handed each of us a magazine, paper, and colored pencils, and said we could draw pictures of animals inspired by the nature magazines. Everyone but me drew just an animal with nothing else in the picture. I, however, drew a panda sitting atop a radio station billboard drinking a can of Coke. I wrote on the billboard, "KOKE Radio: In Panda City, Missouri, Coke is it!"
As soon as I saw everyone else's drawings, I thought, "Yep. We're being raised differently."
