Fox News threatens to sue Fox TV over "Simpsons" spoof?
You might have heard that Matt Goening, creator of The Simpsons, got in trouble when a recent episode included a spoof of Fox News. Both The Simpsons and Fox News are owned by the same corporation, but Fox News (which has been quick on the legal trigger finger lately) supposedly threatened to sue The Simpsons. Or so it was reported.
Reminder to all reporters: Check Your Sources!
Names & Faces (washingtonpost.com)"Fox fought against it and said that they would sue the show," Groening told Gross. "And we called their bluff because we didn't think that Rupert Murdoch would pay for Fox to sue itself. So we got away with it," he said, proud of the accomplishment.
But the above WashPost article shows that it turns out Groening was just kidding when he mentioned Fox suing itself over The Simpsons.
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