Simpsons Creator: We Love Attacking Fox

Simpsons creator Matt Groening told Jon Stewart earlier this week that Fox forbid the Simpsons of doing a fake newscrawl because Fox viewers it for the real thing.

(Comments like these are common out of the Simpsons camp; as Jack Shafer noted, they’re is protected by a “titanium shield” from the interference by the higher-ups at Fox.)

In this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Groening addresses the pending Wall Street Journal sale to Rupert Murdoch, too:

“I think he owns enough,’ Groening says.

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