Boondocks & Adult Swim = Marriage Made In Heaven.

So the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim is saving another animated series from Fox's narrow-minded vision of what America find's entertaining - Fox of course is the network that cancelled Family Guy (But will now air new episodes later this year after CN, in the intervening 2 years since Fox cancelled Family Guy, got tremendous ratings with reruns and sold over 1 million DVDs of the series first 2 1/2 seasons) and nixed the Boondocks pilot but said "Yes" to "My Big Fat Obnoxious Box" and "Who's Your Daddy." Check out this article: Boondocks & Adult Swim = Marriage Made In Heaven.

I know Fox bashing is easy, but one can't underestimate their impact. As Outfoxed (and other sources) explained, the majority of Fox News viewers could not accurately answer basic questions regarding who was responsible for the 9/11 tragedy. This same network now also rejects cutting edge (and admittedly often leftist) entertainment, for "reality" shows that suggest that "success" is humiliating oneself to fit a specific standard of wealth and beauty (like "Boss" or "The Swan"). It's hard enough to be inundated daily with images of "success" that suggest that unless you're wealthy and Barbie-doll beautiful, you're a failure. It's another thing to reinforce these advertising images with programs that do the same, and then, to call them "reality" shows. This is Orwellian to the highest degree. There is seldom anything "real" about reality shows, and instead, these are "fantasies": people being placed in artificial environments, who have been chosen due to their personality types to result in specific types of conflict with one another that will, ideally, appeal to the most prurient interests of society. I believe, that, is similar to how the Supreme Court defines pornography, is it not?

It's also interesting to note that Ted Turner owns the Cartoon Network. The division between liberal/conservative, or Red state/Blue state, is now visible in the corporate world to some degree: Murdoch vs. Turner?

Oh, and Alternet (a very cool syndicate of articles for small left-leaning papers) is suing Fox over their less than accurate slogan, "Fair & Balanced, we report, you decide." Check out: http://www.alternet.org/fightfox/