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Old 07-21-2007, 12:55 PM   #1
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Simpson's creator: Fox viewers too stupid to differentiate between cartoon&real news?

After doing this particularly hilarious Simpsons episode:

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Fox News corporation forbid the creator (and managing editor, etc) of the Simpson's Matt Groening from doing anymore satire on Fox using the news crawl because Fox vieweres watching that Simpsons episode might have thought it was real news

http://www.crooksandliars.com/Media/...S-Groening.wmv

I guess, after polls showing Fox News viewers are the most likely to have misconceptions about reality...they took the safe road and decided cartoon news on the simpsons could accidently be watched by a Fox News viewer who would then complain that a "Fox News Program" would give them such troubling information

Isn't it hilarious how low Murdoch thinks of his viewers...it does explain some of the programming...to think that Fox News viewers would think that the JFK post-humously joined the GOP? Because it was on a fast fake news crawl of a cartoon?
 
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Old 07-21-2007, 04:28 PM   #2
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at least fox knows their audience
 
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Old 07-21-2007, 04:57 PM   #3
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I saw him say this... where was it, on Daily show or Colbert report? Freakin' hilarious.
 
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Old 07-21-2007, 05:43 PM   #4
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So do the Democrats cause cancer?? I missed the fox news report on that one...

It is hilarious and sad at the same time that network execs really think people are so dumb that they won't allow people to think for themselves, every news report - doesn't matter if its Fox News, MSNBC, CNN etc - all have to tell us what to think and how to feel.
 
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Old 07-21-2007, 10:40 PM   #5
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Or could it be the execs didn't like being made fun of and this is their way of trying to censor without looking like they're censoring?
 
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Old 07-22-2007, 09:05 AM   #6
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Let me be the first to say:

FOX News viewers stupid? That's unpossible!
 
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Old 07-23-2007, 12:44 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by thatguyoverthere View Post
Let me be the first to say:

FOX News viewers stupid? That's unpossible!
that would be Fox viewers.... Fox news is a different channel.



on a slighty related but yet unrelated topic, i won 4 tickets on the radio to the Simpsons movie premiere in Boston on Thursday.

sweeeeet.
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Old 07-23-2007, 11:19 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Linzyhop View Post



on a slighty related but yet unrelated topic, i won 4 tickets on the radio to the Simpsons movie premiere in Boston on Thursday.
yea, thats cool. i live in Springfield New Jersey so i get to see the premiere for free because i live here.


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