My Way News - Group urges CW stations not to air 'Gossip Girl'
My Way News reports: "On-air promos for a sexual threesome on an upcoming episode of 'Gossip Girl' have spurred the Parents Television Council to ask affiliates of the CW network to pre-empt the show. Airing the teen tryst, which is being teased in an ad as a '3SOME,' is 'reckless and irresponsible,' said PTC president Tim Winter in a statement Wednesday. The threesome involves three main characters in the show but they are not identified in the promos."

Comment: Just another sad example of the mixed messages our society sends to young people through Hollywood. They show people engaging in all kinds of vice, they make it look glamorous, but they never show the consequences. Sex sells, sure, that's old news, and for adults old enough to make their own decisions maybe that's ok, but the makers of teen sex dramas need to be held to account. It's ironic that the daytime soaps that have a largely adult audience have never been as risque as this nighttime soap targeted at a teen audience. The only sad thing here is that all the attention is probably welcome news for the makers of "Gossip Girl" and will serve to increase their ratings, which will in turn lead to more daring and provocative content. Let's just hope that parents out there see it as a teachable moment to impart their values to their children instead of letting Hollywood do it for them.