Teenage Magazine Arbitration Panel
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The Teenage Magazine Arbitration Panel is a British magazine
industry self-regulatory body that creates guidelines related to magazines where more than 25 per cent of the readership aged under 16. The panel's guidelies state "readers will always be encouraged to take a responsible attitude to sex".
From its inception in 1996 through 2009, the panel has ruled on only three complaints. Author Sue Palmer
has called TMAP a "toothless watchdog."
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
industry self-regulatory body that creates guidelines related to magazines where more than 25 per cent of the readership aged under 16. The panel's guidelies state "readers will always be encouraged to take a responsible attitude to sex".
From its inception in 1996 through 2009, the panel has ruled on only three complaints. Author Sue Palmer
Sue Palmer
Sue Palmer is a former primary headteacher in the Scottish Borders and is an independent writer and consultant on primary education, particularly literacy...
has called TMAP a "toothless watchdog."