The Parents Television Council is on the warpath again, this time taking issue with The CW network’s marketing campaign promoting its freshman drama Gossip Girl.
The new CW print and online campaign includes an ad that has the letters OMFG and pictures what the PTC believes is a “sexually suggestive photo showing a teenage boy kissing a girl’s cleavage.”
“The Parents Television Council deplores the CW’s deliberate use of profanity and sexual imagery to exploit and further corrupt young viewers, and has warned its members about the show and the new ad campaign,” a representative of the PTC said.
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