Posted
10/29/2003 08:43:00 PM
by Douglas
So after supplying Al Franken with a truck load of free publicity when he came out with his new book, Fox News then set their sights on
The Simpsons for
making fun of their crawler. I wonder how long it took them to realize they have the same boss? But that's not the best part of this:
"Now Fox has a new rule that we can't do those little fake news crawls on the bottom of the screen in a cartoon because it might confuse the viewers into thinking it's real news," he said.
So it wasn't that Fox News go upset for the ridicule of their right-leaning news with such quips as "JFK posthumously joins Republican Party" or "Study: 92 per cent of Democrats are gay", it was that a viewer might turn on their TVs, tune into The Simpsons, see the crawler, and actually think they were watching Fox News.