That should have been a message two decades ago. It’s too late now. Additionally, there’s many more far-right echo chambers at this point. It’s not just Fox News anymore.
In the season 22 episode ‘The Fool Monty’, which aired in 2010, a helicopter appears with the slogan: “Fox News: Not Racist, But #1 With Racists.” The joke was criticised by political pundit Bill O’Reilly, who accused the show of “continuing to bite the hand that feeds part of it”.
So his problem with the allegations of pandering to racists wasn’t that it was untrue, it was that he felt they’d been paid to not say it?
That is what those words mean in that order, yes.
“Grab the TV remote, go to menu, go to controls, vertical controls, look for channel list and delete Fox News.”
I love political statements that are this specifically actionable
I don’t have cable. Is this an accurate procedure?
I’ll be honest, I had no idea you could delete channels from a cable box.
Maybe for one specific cable company’s box. No idea which it is, but they’re all different with different menus.
No idea why anyone would exist labeled as “vertical controls”. Wtf
Yeah, that just made me think of “vertical hold”, which is a REALLY old thing you’d have to deal with on TVs, lol.
I’ll be honest I don’t own a television, though maybe someone else knows
There’s already little devices you can buy that just cycle through every IR code to turn off every TV in range. This should get coupled with a mic listening for Fox News commercial bumps before activating.
Is there a specific sound to those? It actually could be possible with an ESP chip, IR transmitter, and a decent pickup mic
I’d be shocked if fox doesn’t use some sound effects at the start of shows as a pavlovian response to get their viewers salivating
If only South Park’s “brown noise” actually existed…
Do you mean for public TVs like at the gym, and waiting rooms?
Because Fox News is about to remind everyone he was getting his toes sucked by a trafficked girl on an Epstein flight?
Why are you trying to divert attention away from deleting Fox News?
Was he only on one flight or a repeat visitor? One of the tactics Epstein employed was finding co-conspirators by inviting them to plausibly deniable senerios, but when that failed, simply getting blackmail on people who weren’t interested. A foot massage from a 16 year old is pretty tame by Epstein standards and sounds more like a trap.
Source?
It doesn’t seem too damning for Groening. However if it were me I’d be asking a fucking lot of questions and checking in with her, I’m amazed even his “innocent” guests thought nothing was strange about her employment. Then again I’d never get on the plane to begin.
Yeah, being on the plane is not a great idea or look, but there not anything illegal or necessarily sexual about a foot massage for most people. I’ve had a hand massage once and it was more like a pain-relief thing, and TBH I can’t recall what the masseuse who did it looked like much less their apparent age.
I’d put that on the same category as getting a haircut with a shampoo
I’m not getting any kind of massage from a child. It might not be “on the plane to the island” bad but it is pretty bad.
So the question is: is he on the list along with Trump?
Exactly
That with any legacy media. Most of it is bought by oligarchs and is propaganda
Well yeah, he’s been an anarchist since he was a comic artist
Reminds me of Scoop Chang, Fox Quote Unquote News (Futurama: Decision 3012)
Um what took you so long?
Matt is right, but it’s awfully convenient to say it now and not when his show was popularising Fox on it’s rise to dominance, despite being a fascist shitbag TV network. 30 years too late Matt.
Fox and Fox News are different channels. Also, the former is owned by Disney now.
What you say is both true, and completely irrelevant and misleading. The Simpsons’ heydays were during Fox’s meteoric rise to pre-eminence and at the time Fox News not only supplied Fox with their newsroom coverage they were owned by the same parent at the time. Being owned by Disney now is immaterial to my previous comment.
From wikipedia
Fox went on to become the most successful attempt at a fourth television network; it was also the highest-rated free-to-air network in the 18–49 demographic from 2004 to 2012 and 2020 to 2021 and was the most-watched American television network in total viewership during the 2007–08 season.[3][4] It is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters. Fox does not have network newscasts of its own due to its lack of a news division, and instead relies on the 24-hour Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network to supply news programming to the network.
And regarding Fox News
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News
The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City, U.S.[3][4] It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is owned by Fox Corporation.[5] It is the most-watched cable news network in the U.S.,[6][7] and as of 2023 it generates approximately 70% of its parent company’s pre-tax profit.
But he created Fox News thanks to the Simpson success
Fox Entertainment is not Fox News. They often play against one another to capture both audiences.
The Simpsons aired in 1989. Fox News was created in 1996.
The cartoonist who coined “eat my shorts” and “don’t have a cow” and “doh!” 7 years earlier is supposedly more complicit for the rise of fascist media than the democrat president who just months before the founding of Fox news passed the Telecommunications act of 1996 that made Fox news possible/inevitable.
With money from the Simpson
Nah from the Gary Shanding show
I read it was mostly Tracy Ullman money (I didn’t)
youre not wrong when you state he helped create fox news, not sure why you’re so heavily downvoted
1980 - News corp created
1989 - The Simpsons airs
why would Matt Groening do this
why would he contribute to the success of a bad news organization? for the $$$ baby, just like everything else in this cruel, cruel world 😎
im not sure if youre joking but matt groening created the simpsons which is a fictional cartoon that premiered on fox broadcasting company, an entirely different company than news corp which created fox news and which existed nearly a decade before the simpsons did.
thanks for the info! was fox news as divisive back in the 90s as it is today? if so, why would he work with them?
No, it took a while to get really bad. It was always right leaning and not great reporting but it wasn’t until the success of Bill O’Reilly in the oughts that it went completely off the rails. If you haven’t seen it you should watch John Stewart on Crossfire.Crossfire was Tucker Carlson’s first big show back when Fox was first starting to get really bad and was competing with Comedy Central instead of other news organizations. Stewart killed the show in one interview. How? By telling them that they were hurting America and asking them to stop.
he didn’t
I think a show with hidden satire like simpsons aired on such a network (fox, if it was like it is today ( i don’t know, I am young and not American)) would be a funny achievement 🤔
true
Fox Broadcasting Company is/was a subsidiary of News Corp, now “Fox Corporation” which is owned by the same people.
The name changed to Fox Corporation when they sold their entertainment portfolio to Disney.
Disney owns the Simpsons.
Is one of those people Matt fucking Groening? Because otherwise it’s a stupid claim. Did Sean Hannity create the Simpsons?
Just like all the US tax payers killed children, right?
well, yes. thats why americans should be upset
So where does the blame stop then?
Are you serious?
Yes. Where does the blame stop when we’re all apparently responsible for all the bad shit on the world?
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Did @big_slap@lemmy.world mention the world, or just america?
when we get the money out of politics
Ah yes… Impractical idealism. It never fails to do nothing with its obvious, simple answers.
yup!
I know why.
