{"id":1661,"date":"2003-10-29T23:26:28","date_gmt":"2003-10-30T03:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/10\/29\/rupert-murdoch-threatens-to-sue-own-sh"},"modified":"2003-10-29T23:26:28","modified_gmt":"2003-10-30T03:26:28","slug":"rupert-murdoch-threatens-to-sue-own-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/29\/rupert-murdoch-threatens-to-sue-own-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Rupert Murdoch Threatens to Sue Own Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1653'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/simpsue.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\">The Simpsons<br \/>\n        creator Matt Groening says Fox News threatened legal action after an<br \/>\n        episode of the cartoon poked fun at the channel. <\/p>\n<p>The episode, on Fox Entertainment, featured a &quot;Fox News Crawl&quot; at<br \/>\n        the bottom of the screen, which parodied items featured by the news channel. <\/p>\n<p>        The cartoon ticker read: &quot;Pointless news crawls up 37 per cent &#8230;<br \/>\n        Do Democrats cause cancer? Find out at foxnews.com &#8230; Rupert Murdoch:<br \/>\n        Terrific dancer &#8230; Dow down 5000 points &#8230; Study: 92 per cent of Democrats<br \/>\n        are gay &#8230; JFK posthumously joins Republican Party &#8230; Oil slicks found<br \/>\n      to keep seals young, supple &#8230;&quot; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/entertainment\/story\/sm_833358.html\">from Ananova<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Simpsons creator Matt Groening says Fox News threatened legal action after an episode of the cartoon poked fun at the channel. The episode, on Fox Entertainment, featured a &quot;Fox News Crawl&quot; at the bottom of the screen, which parodied &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/29\/rupert-murdoch-threatens-to-sue-own-show\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}