Auchtoon!The Many Flavors of Financial Ruin…
Originally published in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, December 10, 2007
For those of you who may be unaware, Hannah Montana is the latest creation from the Disney media juggernaut that separates kids, tweens, teens, and parents from their money. Her concert tour swept through Grand Rapids earlier this month, selling out instantaneously and drawing frenzied families from Detroit and Chicago and beyond who had gotten shut out of the tour dates in their cities. Crazy. But even as I write this, passing judgment upon fellow parents who allow the marketing machinery to play them like pawns desperate to please their little angels, I reflect on the hours Jane and I have spent trying to score a Wii this Christmas and, well, I have nothing further say about this….
