FOX News

Defending The Muppets against FOX News.

Fox News is a cable news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group. Created by Rupert Murdoch in 1996, the channel is now available in 102 million households in the U.S., and features shows such as The Live Desk, Hannity & Colmes, Fox & Friends and The O'Reilly Factor.

Among Fox News' commentators are Bill O'Reilly, Oliver North, and Sean Hannity.

Sister station Fox Business Network airs a program called Follow the Money.

Lily, a Sesame Street special's character meant to discuss food insecurity, appeared at the National Press Club in December 2011; the blog FOX Nation belittled the character and the cause.^[1]

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2 Muppet Mentions
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ReferencesEdit

On a 2007 episode of Sesame Street, Oscar has been reporting for GNN, the Grouch News Network, which features "All grouchy, all disgusting, all yucky news, all the time." Because all the stories keep backfiring on Oscar (happy endings for Sleeping Beauty and her Prince, Cookie Monster breaking a cookie but realizing he now has two cookies to eat, etc.), Grundgetta calls the station and announces that she is going to watch Pox News, which is a true "Trashy News Show."

In The Muppets, Sam the Eagle can be seen as a correspondent for Everything Stinks on WGF News (a loose parody of the network).

Muppet MentionsEdit

On July 15, 2010, the station's news segment promoted an upcoming report about the final answer to the question "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" During the teaser, Joe Raposo's "Chicken or the Egg" played.