Emmy Awards cut Alec Baldwin joke about News Corp

The Emmy Awards began on a controversial note when it was revealed that a taped comedy routine by Alec Baldwin for the show was cut from the telecast because it contained a joke about the News Corp phone hacking scandal.

The actor was to be part of an opening video for Sunday night's 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.


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Fox said it believed the joke was inappropriate to make light of an issue being taken very seriously by the company.

First-time Emmy producer Mark Burnett, whose string of reality TV hits includes Survivor, was in charge of the ceremony, but kept mum when asked about Baldwin. 'There's nonstop drama, but everything is fine,' he said cryptically on the red carpet before the show.

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