Oscar is latest muppet to grace Google’s home page. Everyone’s favorite grouch is taking some heat over a parody the show did of Fox News!
Sesame Street producers are getting criticized for a parody that slams Fox News, and the ombudsman for the show says that the criticism is justified.
In a two-year old episode that was rebroadcast on October 29, the 40-year-old PBS children’s show features Oscar the Grouch making the decision to star his own news network, called the Grouch News Network, or GNN. The skit features CNN’s Anderson Cooper filling in for Oscar as he chats with “Walter Cranky” and “Dan Rather-Not,” parodies on Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather.
Then a muppet caller talks about changing the channel to Pox News.
“I am changing the channel,” the irate muppet says. “From now on, I am watching ‘Pox’ News. Now there is a trashy news show.”
PBS ombudsman Michael Getler criticized producers for allowing the segment to air, saying “they should have resisted” making fun of Fox News.
According to polls conducted by AOL’s Pop Eater sixty two percent of voters feel that Sesame Street has a liberal slant. What do you think of the Fox News-Pox News parody?
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