A taped comedy routine by Alec Baldwin for the Emmy Awards has been cut because it contained a joke about the News Corp phone hacking scandal.
The actor was to be part of an opening video for the ceremony airing on Fox, a News Corp-owned network. But he tweeted before the awards that the network had killed his joke about the hacking scandal in Britain involving the now-closed News of the World tabloid. Fox said it believed the joke was inappropriate.
The actor was to be part of an opening video for the ceremony airing on Fox, a News Corp-owned network. But he tweeted before the awards that the network had killed his joke about the hacking scandal in Britain involving the now-closed News of the World tabloid. Fox said it believed the joke was inappropriate.
