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Gossip Girl Gets &;Plug&; fromHaters
By encinoman
Movies have long been advertised with short blurbs from critics &;It&;ll make your hair stand on end,&; &;You&;ll thrill to this special love story,&; etc.
But the producers of Gossip Girl have the best blurb of all, from the conservative Parents Television Council. Their mission impossible: &;protecting children against sex, violence, and profanity in entertainment.&;
I saw the Gossip Girl ad on a billboard on Ventura Boulevard in Encino, where thousands of Valley Girls see it as they drive by:
Parents Television Council: &;Mind-blowingly Inappropriate&;
Tags: censorship, gossip-girl, indecency, parents-television-council, Television
This entry was posted on August 6, 2008 at 12:18 am and is filed under Sex and Society, Television.
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