Yuratuhl wrote:
Isn't satire inherently politically charged? Specifically if targeted at a news company which very obviously supports right-wing views?
FOX has everything bad coming to them.
My point is that if Rupert Murdoch was the devil his detractors make him out to be, that...and probably more than half of the jokes on
The Simpsons in the last 20+ year, not to mention the jokes on
Family Guy...never would have made it on the air.
That is what makes that clip funny to me. The very people sitting on their couch with some sort of smug, self-righteous satisfaction that Fox/Murdoch have had a comeuppance don't get that Fox/Murdoch only get that comeuppance because they've allowed it to happen. Even less surprising is that the dunderheads sitting on their couch enjoying the warm glow of their smug self-righteousness and lamenting the 'sweat shop' conditions mocked in the opening refuse to acknowledge that those conditions exist because they're sitting in front of the TV enjoying the fruits of the alleged sweat-shop labor.
Your Pal,
Jubber