Why only a tiny clip?!? The rest of it (all 6 min of it) is here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=derLl4n63UU

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LA Weekly has a cover story and interview with Matt Groening this week.

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Groening has made a great deal of money at Fox......
Fox is the leading reactionary corporate media force in the country-it does daily damage to the country and to its
citizens.
Are we to applaud Mr. Groening for his business acuity
and for seeing himself as "a renegade" corporate employee-
in the face of what the network does?
think not. think very not.

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This was one of my favorite comics when I was a kid... now in a collection:

The Big Book Of Hell

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Fox was the first network in the US to start putting its logo onscreen for extended periods of time during the show, starting out at a few minutes and eventually being on during the WHOLE show. I complained to them about this as soon as it started, saying I would keep watching 'The Simpsons' because it was my favorite show but would stop watching all other Fox shows as long as this continued. I never got a response from the network, but did get a letter from The Simpsons staff thanking me, saying that they hated having their show ruined this way. Well, 14 years later this practice has spread to all the other networks, making a large percentage of broadcast TV unwatchable. (I've since stopped watching The Simpsons on TV because it became a chore to sit through, but have bought all the DVDs of the show that have come out.) Matt Groening should demand Fox stop ruining his show- I was shocked when he not only kept doing The Simpsons, but did a second show (Futurama, which I have never seen) for them as well!

Besides ruining the picture, the Fox network has also killed off many of the nation's great independent TV stations. Stations like KTXL and KTVU used to run unedited, uncensored movies in prime time, along with a lot of other innovations the networks would never touch with a ten-foot pole. All of this quickly went away once the Fox network expanded its schedule.

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Fox news was greeedy enough to let it happen, because they profited from it.
Obviously many people watched the Simpsons, but were not aware that the message was attacking Fox on some occasions. Most people just watched the program, without any recognition that fox news had any connection with "The Simpsons" show.
People watch the program because they liked it and still like it... (it has nothing to do with watching the rest of Fox BS....)and then switch to another chanel. But while they watched it, Fox chanel had plenty of advertisers who would provide money for them.
So Groening made some money? What is wrong with that? He did not exploit you. He provided fantastic entertainment. It is Fox News, who should be ashamed of exploiting an artist and then censuring him for something very silly. Any audience will catch the drift... only Fox News would not. Audiences are much more intelligent than Fox thinks.
In addition, chosing networks, one never knows until much later what certain channels are promoting behind the scenes.
I read Groening's cartoons when he was in the LA Reader section. (I am not 100% sure that it was called LA Reader)
Very weird and very different from any other cartoons around.
I love this man's work!

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