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Family Guy and Modern Family Creators Speak Out Against Fox News

June 19, 2018

The realization that the United States has been separating migrant children from their parents has caused a sense of reflection, chaos, and outrage in the United States, as inhuman signs of an authoritarian regime often do. Seth MacFarlane, creator of ‘Family Guy’, and Steve Levitan, creator of ‘Modern Family’, have been reflecting as of late on their part in the debacle, specifically, how their shows help the Fox corporation create such a big part of their profits. Sure, the Fox corporation has Bart Simpson and ‘Deadpool’ movies, but it also has Fox News, where Laura Ingraham spoke last night, comparing the prison camps where children have been attempting to commit suicide to summer camps. Seth MacFarlane was the first to speak up, saying:

https://twitter.com/SethMacFarlane/status/1008078997429710848

Steve Levitan, whose show ‘Modern Family’ is produced by 20th Century Fox, tweeted:

Let me officially join @SethMacFarlane in saying I’m disgusted to work at a company that has anything whatsoever to do with @FoxNews. This bullshit is the opposite of what #ModernFamily stands for. https://t.co/dnvIbgoIyA

— Steve Levitan (@SteveLevitan) June 19, 2018

And, in the middle of this were tweets by Judd Apatow, whose college dramedy ‘Undeclared’ was aired on Fox, who made no bones about quitting is the right thing, and encouraged the creators of other Fox shows to step down. He said:

He is a fucking kidnapper! The Murdoch’s support these policies ! Where are the Fox stars and executives speaking up?! Imagine if it was your kids. Who has a movie, TV show, sporting event, news show at Fox? How can you remain silent when they promote these policies? https://t.co/jrPVKrxK6n

— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) June 18, 2018

I haven’t worked with Fox since 2002. That family promotes evil ideas and greed and corruption. We all choose who to work with. I understand why that is easier for some than others but many powerful people are powerful enough to speak up to their bosses at a moment like this. https://t.co/8NtsqsR8Xj

— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) June 18, 2018

If EVERY Fox Star and show runner said this policy was evil and protested to the Murdoch family it would make a huge difference in this national debate. https://t.co/9Jo0ktbFPT

— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) June 18, 2018

And I haven’t seen one new powerful person who works for or at Fox stand up and say they oppose their support of these cruel policies. Not one. Fox is like the NRA to politicians. If they said this is too far the President would stop this monsterous behavior. https://t.co/MufV1iQXxs

— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) June 18, 2018

And, honestly, Judd Apatow is right. For all the bluster and public recriminations, Fox doesn’t care about any of this unless it loses ‘Family Guy’ or it loses ‘Modern Family’; two uber-popular shows that make up enough of its bottom line to at least force it to have a serious conversation about the only price of child prison camps that they care about — the literal money that they could stand to lose from taking ‘Family Guy’ off the air.

Seth MacFarlane is obscenely rich. He can leave and start a new show on any other network. His life will be completely fine, and he will finally back up his lifelong liberal beliefs with more than just a show that seems to indulge the comedy of the side he opposes.

Hell, if it takes child concentration camps for ‘The Simpsons’ to leave, so be it. All of those writers will be hired elsewhere, and everyone else can retire.

A stand has to be taken on this issue. If not on this, then on what? Being mad on Twitter is not enough.

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