The Parents Television Council (PTC) suggests an organization billing itself as "nation’s most influential advocacy organization protecting children" would care about the interests of children. Not if they're black or poor though. They recently filed an indecency complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about ABC Network's pre-recorded airing of Live 8: A Worldwide Concert Event -- a recent series of concerts and events across the world staged to highlight the problem of global poverty.

While ABC time delayed the broadcast, and bleeped out almost everything, including the contrived, expletive laced greeting by the children's author/Kabbalah devotee pop superstar known as Esther or Madonna, they missed an expletive.

Nonetheless, Live 8 declared the event a success:

LIVE8 was wonderful and devastatingly effective. The figures announced today are not simply cold numbers.

They mean 10m people alive because you danced for life.

They mean 20m children in school because we played our guitars.

5m orphans taken care of because we sang for joy.

600,000 people every year will not now die of malaria.

The list of excellence goes on. The list of lives stretches to the future.

You did this.

Not the PTC though. Instead of rejoicing with the rest of the planet, PTC has chosen to focus on the East Coast airing of The Who’s “Who Are You,” containing the terribly offensive word. Hopefully there are more parents who are teaching their children to be grateful they aren't starving, suffering from malnutrition or trying to figure out what they can do to help end poverty.

From the sympathetic mouth of Tim Winter, executive director of the PTC:

This kind of language does not belong on network television, particularly when so many children are in the audience. The networks and the FCC must understand that the public will not tolerate this continued abuse of the public airwaves. The television networks must abide by the indecency law and the FCC must vigilantly enforce the law.

And this serves as yet another example of why the Senate needs to follow the lead of the House and vote to increase the indecency fines. The financial penalties for violating the law must no longer be a reasonable cost of doing business.

Aren't you feeling better about the world, parents? Thank the PTC!