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*That torture scene in last week’s episode of “Scandal?” Yeah, it didn’t sit well with the Parents Television Council. The watchdog group is criticizing ABC for not giving the Jan. 10 episode the proper rating. In the episode, Huck (Guillermo Diaz) is arrested under the Patriot Act and accused of attempting to assassinate President Grant [...]
*The Parents Television Council says seven companies have pulled their ads from the second episode of NBC’s “The Playboy Club” — and they’re calling on Capital One, Samsung and Chrysler to follow their lead, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Naturi Naughton and Jenifer Lewis star in the series set in 1963 at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy [...]
*The Parents Television Council has something to say about Nicki Minaj’s wardrobe malfunction this morning. Contacted by TMZ, the watchdog group calls out “Good Morning America” for not using the five-second delay, which would have prevented the rapper’s left nip slip to be broadcast. “For the umpteenth time in recent memory a morning news show [...]
*I understand why the Parents Television Council is outraged by Rihanna’s “Man Down” video — the image of the pop princess shooting a guy in the back of the head is disturbing — but I’m troubled by the PTC’s lack of anger over the onscreen rape that triggers the video’s retaliatory crime. The “Man Down” [...]
*Rihanna continues to defend the controversial new video for her latest single “Man Down,” saying the footage of her murdering a man who appears to have sexually assaulted her a day earlier is a message of empowerment for girls. As previously reported, The Parents Television Council, the Enough is Enough campaign and think tank Industry [...]
*Rihanna is going in on her critics, Parents’ Television Council and former BET employee Paul Porter, for criticizing her “Man Down” video which depicts a victim of domestic violence, shooting down her assailant. Thursday, on BET’s “106 & Park” music video countdown show, Rihanna said the video is “art with a message.” “We just wanted [...]
*The Parents Television Council took broadcasters to task specifically, and the culture more generally, for the objectification and sexualization of teen girls they see in much of today’s TV programming. In a report focused more on raising concerns than pointing fingers at individual offenders, PTC said its primary worry was that those images were “sending the message [...]
*Cee Lo’s expletive-laden song “F*** You” has received a lot of criticism for its use of 16 F-bombs over a soulful 3 1/2-minute throwback groove. (Not to mention some S-words and N-words.) But the singer/rapper says the tune is actually a work of art. “What I’ve tried to accomplish, like, is making art products … [...]
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