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Fox News threatens to sue Fox

Matt Groening, talking on Fresh Air, on Sunday October 26, 2003, mentions that Fox News threatened to sue over an episode in which they were parodied by the show. There was a news ticker along the bottom during the episode, and although Fox News backed down over the lawsuit (Murdoch is unlikely to be willing to pay for a lawsuit against himself), cartoons on Fox networks are no longer allowed to have mock tickers because, "they may confuse the viewer into believing the news headlines are real".