• Daily Finance, Thursday, November 5, 2009 11:11 PM

The Parents Television Council has trained its rhetorical cannons on The CW Network, which has been promoting an upcoming episode of "Gossip Girl" featuring a three-way sexual romp between its teenage characters.

PTC president Tim Winter is asking CW Network affiliates to use "their common sense" and preempt the episode. As of Nov. 5, no station has taken him up on it. But his entreaty has generated an avalanche of media coverage, ensuring that every teenager in America will now have the episode programmed into his or her DVR.

It's not the first time the PTC has taken on "Gossip Girl." Last year, the group blasted the series as "mind-blowingly inappropriate." The CW liked that so much, it used the phrase in its ad campaign for the show.

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