there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that she doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort.
It aired in 1990.
The tv shows fox has aired for decades stand in wildly stark and inexplicable contrast to fox news and what the owners really stand for.
I kind of wish someone could give me a better explanation than "money". Because liberals watch it because they get it and conservatives watch it because they don't, but identify with the characters being jackasses (who then learn, or at least teach, a missed lesson). But thay probably is my answer.
