KnifeMissile

The article can be found here.

To sum up the article, Fox News tries to sue Fox Broadcasting over a disparaging parody of Fox News. However, they dropped their suit, probably because they had just learned that they were owned by the same company.

Is Fox News being overly senstive? I mean, people are free to criticize your network, are they not?

archer2371

Yeah, that's a little nutty, that would be like Chris Matthews suing SNL because of some their skits (altho I think he prolly enjoys those).

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numist

People are stupid. Companies are like big blundering people..

I have little hope for people like that.

At least we still have the simpsons

Nizzle

Here is what scrolled on the Simpson's episode for anyone who is interested:

"POINTLESS NEWS CRAWLS UP 37 PERCENT ... DO DEMOCRATS CAUSE CANCER? FIND OUT AT FOXNEWS.COM ... RUPERT MURDOCH: TERRIFIC DANCER ... DOW DOWN 5000 POINTS ... STUDY: 92 PERCENT OF DEMOCRATS ARE GAY ... JFK POSTHUMOUSLY JOINS REPUBLICAN PARTY ... OIL SLICKS FOUND TO KEEP SEALS YOUNG, SUPPLE ... DAN QUALYE: AWESOME ... ASHCROFT DECLARES BREAST OF CHICKEN SANDWICH "OBSCENE" ... HILLARY CLINTON EMBARRASSES SELF, NATION ... BIBLE SAYS JESUS FAVORED CAPITAL-GAINS CUT ... STAY TUNED FOR HANNITY AND IDIOT ... ONLY DORKS WATCH CNN ... JIMMY CARTER: OLD, WRINKLY, USELESS ... BRAD PITT + ALBERT EINSTEIN = DICK CHENEY ... RIGHT WING OF CHICKEN"

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What is most telling about this is Fox's reasoning behind the threat. Their concern was that viewers would mistake the text as being a real Fox Breaking News scroll.

Says a lot about how they perceive their audience's ability to distinguish fantasy from reality.

I don't know whether to laugh or be very afraid.

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The_Dude

i love the simpsons. the creators are pretty liberal and like to make fun of the right wingers (which i thoroughly enjoy!).

its funny that 2 subsidaries of the same company would sue each other.

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maximusveritas

Now that's some funny stuff
actually, I can see why Fox News would be think that viewers might mistake the text as being a real Fox Breaking News scroll. The thing that surprises me is that, for once, they're concerned that people are being misled.

Killconey

If it weren't true, they wouldn't need to sue!

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guthmund

Yeah, I often get confused when "news" is scrolled at the bottom of a cartoon....

I know it's difficult to distinguish between Homer Simpson sitting on the couch drinking a duff and Bill O'Reilly.

I saw the episode and I thought it was really funny....not Fox News funny, but funny.

....morons....

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Macheath

Fox News? Cartoon?....

I hope their dumbass lawyers don't see this:

<img src="http://images.salon.com/comics/tomo/2001/03/19/tomo/story.gif">

mml

What is wrong with FOX News? You know, I don't really care for the network, but it is not as though it is being run by a bunch of nitwits. Most of their people are experienced journalists who should have thicker skin. The only thing that I can figure it that they have immersed themselves so deeply in the "FOX News Culture" and now have a skewed view of the world and their place in it.

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JumpinJesus

Next they'll be suing actual foxes for disparaging FoxNewsChannel, what with foxes being known as sly and cunning and all that. They'll be claiming that viewers may mistake the somewhat reddish coloring of a fox's fur with the red in FoxNews' red, white, and blue logo and think that the animals are an actual part of the news channel, which in fact, they aren't. In case you were wondering.

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matthew330

Off topic but this is what I really don't get:

In the last two days - total of about an hour and a half of flipping channels,

90210 rerun: whole things about a woman's right to choose

some crappy Whoopie Goldberg sitcom: whole thing is overtly bush bashing and anti-conservative

Simpsons: that whole deal (granted it is a retarted reason to sue)

And liberals think they have any sort of argument when it comes to there not being a bias in the media. So what if conservatives have a few am talk radio shows and a few overt conservatives on foxnews (only place on tv you'll find them).

What annoys me is that theres an outcry over these when they appear; however, there's no ambiguity about what they are. They are political talk shows from people who make no bones about what their political stance is. Sitcoms, drama tv shows, regular frickin tv all over the place pushes liberal agenda's and consistently pokes fun at conservatives. Only people who are already involved in politics are gonna watch/listen to a political show, and probably already have a well formed opinion anyway. There are a shitload of people who don't care about politics and are politically ignorant that i'm sure base whatever political beliefs they have on what they've learned from watching sitcoms (unaware of course where they learned their info)

Same thing with newspapers - baltimore sun, washington post, new york times. I don't think anyone would try to argue that they aren't far left leaning; however - they don't portray themselves as such. And again - when something like the Washington Times is published (which is very straighforward about who and what they are) - liberals won't frickin shut up about it.

What gives?

matthew330

Sorry - went on a tangent and i guess that really should have just been a new thread.

Ustwo

Whats funny is I heard the interview where this came out. It was more of an internal company dispute, and the end result was the Simpson's were not longer to use the scrolling fox-banner they used before.

Also the genius of the Simpson's is that they attack BOTH sides, at least they did for the first 10 years (I haven't watched them lately). Just look at the mayor of the town, he is a democrat, who takes huge bribes, embezzles public money, is a womanizer, cheats on his wife, is a drunk, cares nothing for the people but pretends to and speaks with a Kennedy like accent.

If they Simpson’s were a left only show, they wouldn’t have lasted nearly as long.

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Conclamo Ludus

I thought The Simpsons was a product of Rupert Murdoch's evil media empire bent on spreading misinformation and conservative propaganda. They take great shots at both sides of the political spectrum.

I think FOX needs some new lawyers. Such a stupid lawsuit.

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