Fox News Considered Suing Fox's "The Simpsons"

ZeDanimal writes "The Simpsons' pooh-bah Matt Groening said in an NPR interview this week that the Fox News Channel considered legal action against the show for its parody of the station's news ticker. Broadcast, of course, by Fox Entertainment, the episode that raised the ire of the "Fair and Balanced" Fox News crew was Krusty For Congress, which mocked the perceived rightward-leanings of the channel with pseudo-news items such as "Do Democrats cause cancer?" and "Oil slicks found to keep seals young, supple" scrolling across the bottom of the screen. Guess the powers-that-be learned something from the Al Franken affair... or maybe they just feared getting into a popularity contest with the likes of the inanimate carbon rod."

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Countdown

[charliecron]

Everyone should check out "Countdown" in the news video section of www.guerrillanews.com. Its old, but it rocks, with music by AdRock. Its here:

http://www.guerrillanews.com/countdown/

I had no problem playing the quicktime version with mplayer, prob can even play the wmv.

Just use wget to get it from :
http://http.dvlabs.com/gnn/qt/gnn/countdown/countd own_bb.mov

I especially like the commentary on "news".

Re:Apparently...

[Ezubaric]

This last post is Offtopic.

Let's see what you do to that!