FOX News Threatened to Sue The Simpsons (on Fox)
Since 1989, The Simpsons has been a TV show. When you dig deeper into this narrative, it's crucial to keep in mind that it has broadcast on FOX for the better part of thirty years. The Simpsons' creator Matt Groening discussed how the program faced legal action for inserting a parody news ticker in an episode back in 2003. The potential victim? Channel FOX News.
In the cartoon, the FOX News news ticker was displaying a plethora of absurd headlines intended to make fun of the notoriously anti-Democratic network, such as "Do Democrats cause cancer?
It's not entirely clear what crime FOX News believed was being committed or to which they had been a victim, but as Groening noted, the cartoon was in the lead. In order for FOX News to sue FOX Entertainment, Rupert Murdoch would essentially have to fund his own legal defense. Thus, yes. There was no court case.
