Fox Kills Alec Baldwin's Phone Hacking Emmy Joke; Baldwin Pulls Out Of Ceremony

Rupert Murdoch's Fox network cut a joke by Alec Baldwin about the company's phone hacking scandal out of a skit for Sunday's Emmy Awards, causing Baldwin to pull out of the ceremony.

Deadline was the first to report the news, and Baldwin confirmed it on Twitter.

"Fox did kill my NewsCorp hacking joke," Baldwin wrote. "Which sucks bc I think it would have made them look better. A little."

Baldwin had made a reference to the omission in an earlier tweet, writing, "I did a short Emmy pretape a few days ago. Now they tell me NewsCorp may cut the funniest line. #NewsCorphumorlessaswellascorrupt."

Deadline says that the joke came during the planned opening sketch for the Emmys, in which Baldwin was to play a fictional head of a television network. News Corp. told the site that it cut the joke because it didn't want to make light of the phone hacking scandal which has engulfed Murdoch's company.

It's not the first time that a Murdoch property has been accused of going soft on the scandal. The Wall Street Journal was heavily criticized for an editorial strongly defending News Corp.

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Comments

[wickedtwisted2]

02:42 PM on 09/21/2011

obviously the TRUTH has now come out straight from Alec Baldwin. It's a shame that the editors of this board have to put lying headlines out there to gain attention to their content.
PEOPLE... don't believe everything you hear, read, see. Understand that you WILL be manipulated in order to get you to LOOK.
The only document, in my opinion, that you can read and trust is the BIBLE. (ignoramuses, don't bother me with your opinion.... I believe in God and His inspired WORD.)

[picaman]

03:05 PM on 09/20/2011

Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and...

[rcozad]

11:55 AM on 09/20/2011

Let's see how this fits into "Fair and Balanced " ! KUDOS to Baldwin for refusing to be censored or played like a pawn ! Memo to future awards shows don't use Fox or the next scandal will probably be a vote rigging so that only their shows win, after all that is what censorship and news control eventually leads too.

[flkewlkid00]

11:10 AM on 09/20/2011

this is exhibit A why one person should not control more than one media operation.....................------------------------- fixnews-------------------------fair and balanced.

[angalmarketing2]

10:35 AM on 09/20/2011

Baldwin; a has been still looking to get back into the limelight; TV show; BAD.

[Mike A]

12:05 PM on 09/20/2011

Does the word "Relevance" mean anything to you?

[DaniFoxy]

10:24 AM on 09/20/2011

Sad. Censorship is depressing. Where's Kanye when we need him?

[Grumpy Old Dude]

09:56 AM on 09/20/2011

Bullies are famous for not having a sense of humor. Why any thinking person would watch Faux is beyond me....wait, I think I answered my own question with two words; THINKING PERSON!

[kkdkdkdkdk]

08:44 AM on 09/20/2011

Baldwin. No big loss to a lack luster show.

[Theatrixnyc]

11:01 PM on 09/19/2011

I object to the liars on the left who talk class warfare and blame all their woes on the rich.
**
I object to a rig blowing up in the Gulf, due to Regulations that were NEGLECTED (I guess that would be, uh, CAUSE) and IGNORED, or INSPECTORS were PAID OFF, altogether, as the Gulf begins to flood with oil, and the Rep that works for ME, apologizes to the Multi-National, and no one goes to JAIL for the death of 13 people, due to... Negligence.? To the guy sitting in jail for Pot? Really? Or how about when you can get away with hacking, if you settle out of court, and profit from tragedy, for years and years, and no one bats an eyelash, as you take the profit and amass a further fortune? And 'the average guy' that hacked his girlfriends comptuter, or stalked her to her home? Class Warfare? Class Dismissed. How are the Cream Of the Crop, The Smart Ones, when it comes to Obeying the RULES AND LAWS IN PLACE, FOR OUR COUNTRY.? Especially so when you consider the BILLION DOLLAR RECORD PROFITS FOR THE MULTI-NATIONAL, and d*ck in Taxes, for the USA? No, see, I think that's the way about 25% of what's left of the Republican Party, and few Dems, think too. Been there, done that, and that plan, was and is, an EPIC FAIL, for America, as a whole, the other 95% of us.

[garystartswithg]

01:06 AM on 09/20/2011

when you have enough money to buy the government then its not class warfare, unless you have enough money to buy the military too. oh so what are we doing in the middle east? corporate interests? no class warfare, nope.

[Chuck Fowler]

07:35 PM on 09/19/2011

Gee, let's see if we can find ways to make Alec pull out of other shows as well.

[Rasheed Kalifani Knowles]

06:30 PM on 09/19/2011

Ever so typical of the right-wing orcs:
What they dish out, they can never take.

[davein fwb]

06:01 PM on 09/19/2011

You know Fox News Channel is too big to fail. I think it's time to start busting up these MEGA CORPORATIONS or at least start writing some laws on the books preventing companies from getting way way too big.

[Dave3232]

01:46 AM on 09/20/2011

Yes let's get the government to save us from them. Or we could just not watch it. I pick the latter.

[Doug Webster]

04:56 PM on 09/19/2011

New FAUX motto: We censor, You Decide!

[macbil]

04:40 PM on 09/19/2011

Almost as bad as going soft on the Sylandra scandal in which the Prez invested $90000 of his own money in the failed company!

[patman77]

05:10 PM on 09/19/2011

lies and deceit. go play elsewhere. no foools on this page.

[Jstplnefedup]

06:25 PM on 09/19/2011

At least spell the company name right.

[Jstplnefedup]

06:28 PM on 09/19/2011

You know you could make your point without the cap lock on.

I do believe every news Organization did cover Baldwins idiotic VM messages. So not sure you even have a point...but maybe if you make the font bigger it might look more valid

[garystartswithg]

01:04 AM on 09/20/2011

wow are you fat or what? is that why you type in all caps?