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ABC could have had better timing. On the same night the entertainment industry was meeting with VP Joe Biden to discuss media violence, the network aired an episode of Scandal that included a graphic, three-minute torture scene.
The coincidence didn't get by the Parents Television Council, which pointed to the episode as another example of a "failed [TV] ratings system." ABC hasn't replied to a request for comment.
Although the ABC broadcast aired an advisory at the beginning of the program, the Scandal episode did not carry a TV-MA rating.
PTC's president Tim Winter described the scene in Scandal as "intense, explicit and bloody.
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