Is Fox Censoring ‘The Simpsons’?

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Is Fox Censoring ‘The Simpsons’?

Posted on Nov 29, 2010

For the second straight week, “The Simpsons” mocked Fox News, but the gag is mysteriously absent from the show’s online versions. After all these years has Rupert Murdoch finally had enough, or is this just a case of the randoms?

You can watch the original joke, pictured at right, on Gawker.



Below is what you get instead from Hulu (video @ link)

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Of course they are censoring it!!!

[meegbear]

2. Maybe not ...

Repeat jab at Fox News by Fox Broadcasting Co.’s The Simpsons was in direct response to O’Reilly

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It has now been reported that producers of The Simpsons went to great lengths to make certain their latest shot at the right-wing cable outlet would be included on last night’s broadcast. On the New York Times’ Arts Beat blog, Dave Itzkoff writes:

(The Simpsons executive producer Al Jean) said the “Simpsons” producers -- in particular, the creator of the series, Matt Groening -- were pleased with how the first Fox News joke seemed to ruffle the feathers of Bill O’Reilly, the host of the Fox News program “The O’Reilly Factor.” (On his show last week, Mr. O’Reilly played the “Simpsons” satire of Fox News and, with a smile, said of the cartoon family: “Pinheads? I believe so.”)

The “Simpsons” producers could not let that remark stand, so they rushed their second Fox News joke into Sunday’s episode -- so late in the production process that the gag could only be inserted into the version shown in North America, but not into versions shown in foreign markets or on the Internet. (my emphasis -- meegbear)

“There’s a lot of masters that go out,” Mr. Jean said in a telephone interview, “so to save money we just put it in the one master that’s for the U.S. and Canada. More money that will then go to Fox News and undoubtedly to Bill O’Reilly.”

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201011290043